Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:53:10 -0400 (EDT), Jude DaShiell wrote: > It may have, but the proprietary software is unnecessary if you use > archlinux to install it and get it up and running. It doesn't matter what distribution of GNU/Linux you use- if there is no free firmware available for the devi

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 11:34:47 -0400, Doug wrote: > (If anybody know of such, please let me know! I am not averse to paying > for it, if it is reasonable.) I was talking about software that is free as in freedom, not as in price. Libre software, if you will. https://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free

Re: Kali?

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 13:01:45 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I have this as my login title. I have NO "Kali" packages installed, but I > notice they are on the repos. I somehow picked this up during my "system > dorked" adventure. > > So this is just text, how might I change this to my liking? I

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> No guarantee, but in my experience, WiFi "just works" in Debian Squeeze > and Jessie. That was more or less true back in the 11n days. Nowadays we're back to having trouble: most chipset have some kind of support, but many of them have support that's not integrated in the kernel, i.e. you need

Fw: Debian installer and networking

2015-10-29 Thread OECT T
From: Brian Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 7:03 PM > I recently installed Debian Jessie in two PC's. > > At home with a wireless card and at my office on a wired network. > > At home, network seems to be working with WICD (wireless). I > understand that WICD can manage wired networking as well

Re: Enable SPF in postfix and Bind9??

2015-10-29 Thread Jochen Spieker
co...@crearq.co.cu: > > To apply SPF to control mails as well as spoofing > users and more. > - I have a server with postfix mail for local users which is > assigned to use SASL to prevent spoofing mails. > - I have a postfix mail sever face as internet gateway both cases > Debian. > and Bind9 the

Re: QEMU

2015-10-29 Thread Andrew Wood
On 24/10/15 22:56, Reco wrote: Currently you have three ways of doing it (all do not require X): 1) Universal one, but slow. Adding something like "-vnc 0.0.0.0:0" to qemu commandline will force qemu to provide a VNC server on customary tcp:5900, and guest OS will draw to VNC server only. Th

Enable SPF in postfix and Bind9??

2015-10-29 Thread cosme
Hi To apply SPF to control mails as well as spoofing users and more. - I have a server with postfix mail for local users which is assigned to use SASL to prevent spoofing mails. - I have a postfix mail sever face as internet gateway both cases Debian. and Bind9 the internet facing server and enabl

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-29 Thread Jose Martinez
Thanks, that is something that didn't show up in my searching. I've downloaded the specified deb file. As it is a dkms, I expect that it will compile OK for debian as wellwe shall see!! I sure appreciate the info. The internal B43 wireless on my laptop does not play nicely with the b43legacy

Re: RealTek RTL8192EU drivers

2015-10-29 Thread Jose Martinez
Yea, I had checked that site first, they don't have anything on the 8192EU. In fact, their support for the 8192E is pretty spotty. They don't have anything for the 8192EE either, which is the PCI version of the same chip. I saw drivers for an 8192E and an 8192U both for windows, but nothing for

Re: Debian installer and networking

2015-10-29 Thread Brian
On Thu 29 Oct 2015 at 16:07:01 +, OECT T wrote: > I recently installed Debian Jessie in two PC's. > > At home with a wireless card and at my office on a wired network. > > At home, network seems to be working with WICD (wireless). I > understand that WICD can manage wired networking as well,

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Tim McDonough
On 10/29/2015 11:21 AM, Doug wrote: I don't know why you'd spend anything extra for USB3--your old Dell doesn't support that, and if you get a new laptop, the wifi will be built-in and working. The little $6 adapter that I mentioned earlier worked fine with PCLinuxOS for the short distance that

Re: unrar for lenny

2015-10-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 11:31 +0100, BAGI Ákos wrote: > Hi List! > > What are the solutions for installing unrar on lenny? unar is, i think, the only free software for handling modern rar archives. No idea if it was part of lenny, but probably not hard to get running. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson h

Re: unrar for lenny

2015-10-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Oct 26, 2015 at 11:31:43AM +0100, BAGI Ákos wrote: Hi List! What are the solutions for installing unrar on lenny? Lenny is archived (i.e not supported), so you will need to fetch the packages from the archive. The good news, though, is that unrar WAS included in lenny: http://arch

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
And certainly not with debian since debian hasn't got netctl. I forgot one command in my last post. This is the first one to do after installing dialog and iw and wpa_supplicant since netcal comes pre-installed. The correct order of commands is: wifi-menu -o netctl list netctl enable network

unrar for lenny

2015-10-29 Thread BAGI Ákos
Hi List! What are the solutions for installing unrar on lenny? THX for the help.

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Jude DaShiell
It may have, but the proprietary software is unnecessary if you use archlinux to install it and get it up and running. You need wpa_supplicant; iw, dialog and netctl packages installed. Now I have an rt2780 usb wifi adapter and have this working. Once those packages are installed, you run ne

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Robert Crawford
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 21:22 -0400, Doug wrote: > > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band > > > -usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb > > > > > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adap

Re: Debian installer and networking

2015-10-29 Thread Dan Ritter
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 04:07:01PM +, OECT T wrote: > Hello everyone: > > > I recently installed Debian Jessie in two PC's. > > At home with a wireless card and at my office on a wired network. > > At home, network seems to be working with WICD (wireless). I understand that > WICD can mana

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-10-28 at 21:22 -0400, Doug wrote: > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band > > -usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb > > > > https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapt > > er-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb > > > > https://www.thinkpenguin.co

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 03:03:10PM -0500, Tim McDonough wrote: The older Dell laptop that I use for my mobile work has a broken internal WiFi adapter. I'd like to get a recommendation on a USB "stick" type adapter that plays well with Debian and Linux in general. Since I have nothing now I'd j

Re: Debian installer and networking

2015-10-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 16:07 +, OECT T wrote: > At home, network seems to be working with WICD (wireless). I > understand that WICD can manage wired networking as well, according > to documentation. > > At my office, networking is being handled through Network manager. > > I'd like to know whi

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Doug
On 10/29/2015 08:39 AM, Tim McDonough wrote: /snip/ I like the idea of fixing my problem with an external adapter that is supported by free software. Also, the attraction of getting an adapter that supports USB 3.0 and the newer WiFi specifications/modes is attractive. I'm not opposed to sp

Re: No monitor in GNOME Control Center - Color

2015-10-29 Thread Pascal Obry
Just a follow-up on this. Reverting to gdm3/stable (3.14) fixes the issue. So it sounds like a gmd3 3.18 bug. -- Pascal Obry / Magny Les Hameaux (78) The best way to travel is by means of imagination http://v2p.fr.eu.org http://www.obry.net gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-k

Debian installer and networking

2015-10-29 Thread OECT T
Hello everyone: I recently installed Debian Jessie in two PC's. At home with a wireless card and at my office on a wired network. At home, network seems to be working with WICD (wireless). I understand that WICD can manage wired networking as well, according to documentation. At my office, ne

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread rlharris
On Thu, October 29, 2015 10:34 am, Doug wrote: > A few months ago I bought a Pyle surveilance-type camera. Supposed to > be controllable by wireless from the computer. When I got it, I discovered > it only has drivers for Windows. I said, "commonly used." Either "surveillance" or "controllable b

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Safwat
On 10/29/2015 02:59 AM, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1114662-REG/asus_90ig01c1_ba_wireless_ac1300_usb_adapter.html > >> http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1025036-REG/asus_usb_ac56_wireless_ac1200_db.html > > Any word on how well they work on GNU/Linux?

Print MIS and Web2Print

2015-10-29 Thread David Jones
Hi, I'm David representing a software company that specializes in Print Management Software's and Web-to-Print Solutions for commercial printers and print brokers. Our solutions will enable you to manage your business from estimating, all the way through to invoicing. I've highlighted some top

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 10:43 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > This dongle, which has a long aerial, works out of the box on my > raspbian Raspberry-Pi, no driver needed. > > www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H95C0A2 I have something similar, quite like the possibility to use an external antenna. But it

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Doug
On 10/29/2015 04:50 AM, moxalt wrote: On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:22:34 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: It seems to me that with respect to Wi-Fi, Debian has progressed beyond the state in which one needs to overly cautious regarding compatibility. And I think that the same can be said of web ca

Re: Status of repository debian/testing?

2015-10-29 Thread Francois Gouget
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, David Wright wrote: [...] > So waiting could still be a sensible option at this time. Some of us > have yet to finish sorting out jessie (in my case, as a production > system, not as an upgrade target). As far as I can tell waiting is unlikely to solve the upgrade issues. Tha

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Ron
This dongle, which has a long aerial, works out of the box on my raspbian Raspberry-Pi, no driver needed. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H95C0A2 Cheers, Ron. -- Whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty by close application thereto, it is worse executed by t

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread Tim McDonough
On 10/28/2015 8:22 PM, Doug wrote: Are you sure you can't get a replacement part for your laptop? Taking it apart and replacing the WIFI unit would be a pain, but would probably work the best, assuming that you can get the proper driver for it. I eventually got a driver to work with my old Dell

Re: Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

2015-10-29 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:23:00 + Darac Marjal sent: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:45:15PM +1100, Charlie wrote: > > >It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system > >with apt-get dist-upgrade? > > > >I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would > >

Re: Kali?

2015-10-29 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 29 October 2015 12:54:17 Thomas Schmitt wrote: > Hi, > > > I have this as my login title. > > At what point in the chain of events exactly do you see it ? > > A custom text after login is taken from file > /etc/motd > See man 5 motd. > A text before the password prompt might come f

Re: Kali?

2015-10-29 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > I have this as my login title. At what point in the chain of events exactly do you see it ? A custom text after login is taken from file /etc/motd See man 5 motd. A text before the password prompt might come from /etc/issue Learned from file /etc/pam.d/login which is mentioned in man

Kali?

2015-10-29 Thread David Baron
I have this as my login title. I have NO "Kali" packages installed, but I notice they are on the repos. I somehow picked this up during my "system dorked" adventure. So this is just text, how might I change this to my liking?

Re: Recommendations for interactive use shell

2015-10-29 Thread Nicolas George
Le septidi 7 brumaire, an CCXXIV, kamaraju kusumanchi a écrit : > I highly recommend zsh. It has superb auto completion facilities. In > particular, I like the following features in it. > > 1) When doing tab completion, zsh can list files in the order they > were created/modified. Currently this i

Re: Suggested apt-get dist-upgrade.........

2015-10-29 Thread Darac Marjal
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:45:15PM +1100, Charlie wrote: It was suggested that someone [lost the email] upgrade their system with apt-get dist-upgrade? I suppose depending on what packages are installed on a system would suggest which of these bugs could be problematical: Summary: libreoffi

Re: Suitable USB WiFi Adapter

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 00:22:34 -0500, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote: > It seems to me that with respect to Wi-Fi, Debian has progressed beyond > the state in which one needs to overly cautious regarding compatibility. > And I think that the same can be said of web cams. Nowadays, most > commonly used

Re: Debian Desktop Environment

2015-10-29 Thread moxalt
On Tue, 27 Oct 2015 14:01:09 +0100, Mateusz Kozłowski wrote: > Could You tell me which debian desktop environment is the most security and > the best privacy and which You recommned for debian users? (KDE, XFCE, GNOME > etc.)? They're all reasonably secure. Of course, if you want to narrow your