RTL8187SE driver (I think) problem

2020-04-30 Thread Joe Dennigan
I recently upgraded my Advent notebook from Debian 9 to 10 at which point the wifi card, an RTL8187SE using the rtl818x_pci driver, stopped working properly and no longer connects to the router while a wired connection still works. Two other laptops, an HP Pavilion and an ancient IBM T42, have no

Realtek RTL8187SE Woes

2020-04-29 Thread Joe Dennigan
I recently upgraded my Advent notebook from Debian 9 to 10 at which point the wifi card, an RTL8187SE using the rtl818x_pci driver, stopped working properly and no longer connects to the router A wired connection still works. Two other laptops, an HP and an ancient IBM T42, have no problems

Re: webmail and email from command line

2019-08-14 Thread Joe Dennigan
to...@tuxteam.de writes: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 06:02:01PM +, loredana wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 3:00 PM wrote: > >=20 > > > [...] > >=20 > > > Note that what Google calls there "less secure applications" is just > > > marketing mumbo-jumbo to nudge users off their non-browser

Re: Replacing Pulseaudio with Alsa alone

2019-06-04 Thread Joe Dennigan
PulseAudio and can't think of any disadvantage(s) to removing it. Regards, Joe Dennigan -- “Blood sacrifices keep the planet from eating your feet” -- Red

Re: Can't Connect to Secure Wireless Network

2019-05-22 Thread Joe Dennigan
. Removing that package and just using the builtin kernel module rtl818x_pci (the default, AFAIK) solved the problem. Regards, Joe Dennigan -- “Blood sacrifices keep the planet from eating your feet” -- Red

Re: WTF does Firefox 58?

2018-03-04 Thread Joe Dennigan
Hi Brad, > Pale Moon can spoof different user agent strings. A feature that allows > one to fool most sites into thinking you're using FF. > > Look for useragent.override in about:config - there are quite a few set > up by default to ensure certain sites work as well as possible. > > I've yet

Re: WTF does Firefox 58?

2018-03-04 Thread Joe Dennigan
I also had problems when upgrading firefox at the insistence of my bank, though in my case it was add-ons (and bloat - overall cpu usage was up). In the end I wound up reserving firefox solely for banking and installing palemoon for everything else. Some trouble finding working add-ons for my

Etch and unstable Belkin wireless problem

2009-01-14 Thread Joe Dennigan
Hi. I installed Etch on a HP Pavilion ZE4900 in June 2008, and have since 'upgraded' to unstable. However, from the beginning there has been a glitch configuring my wireless card. It's a Belkin F5D7010 (RaLink RT2500). If I boot, wait for the login prompt and then insert the card all works as