From: Wim
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 20:14:05 +0100
> ... Sway, a Wayland compositor is now available in Sid. It's a drop
> in replacement for i3wm. Works very well.
Debian 10 here. Since 2000 I've jumped to "testing" twice. In both
cases problems surfaced. After the second foray I resolved to
From: Reco
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2020 11:47:40 +0300
> You're supposed to use so called Wireless PCMCIA Card to get wireless
> with this laptop. About the only advantage over your current USB WiFi
> dongle is that you get to free that USB slot though :)
(1) PCMCIA Ethernet adapter has projecting
Hi.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 06:42:22PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > I'm mildly curious how you managed to obtain a laptop which does not
> > have any kind of wireless connectivity, ...
>
> The machine is a Sharp Mebius PC-CB1-M1.
>
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Here's a script that turns WiFi on and off on my Dell laptop. (It works on my
2-hole desktop as well -- so the complexity. 'slsware' is my domain.)
# Makes sure the primary Ethernet port (ETH0) is up and
# sets a route to rrc through ETH0 (so
On 11/29/20 9:42 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
From: Reco
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:09:26 +0300
I'm mildly curious how you managed to obtain a laptop which does not
have any kind of wireless connectivity, ...
The machine is a Sharp Mebius PC-CB1-M1.
From: Reco
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:09:26 +0300
> I'm mildly curious how you managed to obtain a laptop which does not
> have any kind of wireless connectivity, ...
The machine is a Sharp Mebius PC-CB1-M1.
https://jp.sharp/support/mebius/spec/pc_cb1_m1.html
It has an 8P8C socket and a 6P2C
Hi,
a bit of topic but Sway, a Wayland compositor is now available in Sid.
It's a drop in replacement for i3wm. Works very well.
On Wednesday, 25 November at 00:50, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Wicd is no longer needed but leaving it installed seems harmless. (When
> wayland/weston is reliable
On Sunday 29 November 2020 05:32:04 Richard Hector wrote:
> On 28/11/20 9:58 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Nominal power drain was about 250kwh an hour
>
> That's about 250kW then? :-)
Yes. The original install had a 250kw sola transformer but it was
destroyed by a lightning strike, so it got
On 28/11/20 9:58 am, Gene Heskett wrote:
Nominal power drain was about 250kwh an hour
That's about 250kW then? :-)
Richard
On Friday 27 November 2020 11:51:49 pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: Reco
> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:30:04 +0300
>
> > This one works for me:
> >
> > $ lspci | grep Wireless
> > 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)
> >
> > It's a mini-PCI card, inserted in PCI-X
On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 08:51:49AM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > This one works for me:
> >
> > $ lspci | grep Wireless
> > 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)
> >
> > It's a mini-PCI card, inserted in PCI-X adapter.
>
> OK, thanks. A USB TP-Link here is
pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> I imagined FPGA based hardware assembled by J. Doe on the kitchen
> table. It would need to be licensed similar to amateur radio? But
> available licenses don't cover the WiFi band? Wouldn't it be similar
> to licensing outdoor Christmas lights because they radiate
From: Reco
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 09:30:04 +0300
> This one works for me:
>
> $ lspci | grep Wireless
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)
>
> It's a mini-PCI card, inserted in PCI-X adapter.
OK, thanks. A USB TP-Link here is used with a laptop. For a
From: Gene Heskett
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:07:24 -0500
> ... seel the product in an open market.
I was thinking open DIY.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_it_yourself
Scroll down to "Electronics World 1959, home assembled amplifier".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur_radio
Regards,
Hi.
On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 03:12:20PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > The kernel has no free RAM to queue a packet or that Tp-Link device
> > you're is using low-quality kernel module. Happens with Tp-Link, but
> > there's a bright side - it could've been Broadcom.
> >
> > Try
From: Reco
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:42:59 +0300
> Try increasing a value of vm.min_free_kbytes, it may help.
vm.min_free_kbytes wasn't in /etc/sysctl.conf as some Web pages claim
but cat /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes gave 39944. Adding the line
"vm.min_free_kbytes = 59916" in /proc/... ,
On Thursday 26 November 2020 18:12:20 pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: Reco
> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:42:59 +0300
>
> > No. "auto" means (taken directly from interfaces(5)):
> > ...
>
> OK, thanks. Several years since I last read the man page. Can't say
> it's inspiring prose; absolutely no
From: Reco
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:42:59 +0300
> No. "auto" means (taken directly from interfaces(5)):
> ...
OK, thanks. Several years since I last read the man page. Can't say
it's inspiring prose; absolutely no offense to authors; just my honest
impression.
> The main difference between
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:18:43 +0300
Reco wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:31:55AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:43:00 +0300
> > Reco wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:19:08AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:42:59 +0300
> > > > Reco wrote:
>
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 10:31:55AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:43:00 +0300
> Reco wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:19:08AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:42:59 +0300
> > > Reco wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 03:06:59PM -0800,
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 17:43:00 +0300
Reco wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:19:08AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:42:59 +0300
> > Reco wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 03:06:59PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > > > This is the only oddity evident after ifup
On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 09:19:08AM -0500, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:42:59 +0300
> Reco wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 03:06:59PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > > This is the only oddity evident after ifup wlxa0f3c10a28f7.
> > >
> > > DHCPDISCOVER on wlxa0f3c10a28f7 to
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 10:42:59 +0300
Reco wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 03:06:59PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
...
> > This is the only oddity evident after ifup wlxa0f3c10a28f7.
> >
> > DHCPDISCOVER on wlxa0f3c10a28f7 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> > send_packet: No buffer
On Tue, Nov 24, 2020 at 03:06:59PM -0800, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> > "allow-hotplug" tells udev to raise a network interface after it's
> > attached to the kernel. This result of ifup is expected.
>
> OK, thanks. Same as "auto "?
No. "auto" means (taken directly from interfaces(5)):
Lines
From: Reco
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 08:25:39 +0300
> The wpasupplicant package provides wpa-* ifupdown options for
> /etc/network/interfaces. If these options are specified, wpa_supplicant
> is started in the background when your wireless interface is raised and
> stopped when brought down.
On Sun 15 Nov 2020 at 10:59:10 (-0800), pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> From: Reco
> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 08:25:39 +0300
> > [1] also states that:
> >
> > The wpasupplicant package ...
> >
> > In simplier terms: no wpasupplicant = no WPA2.
>
> Your simplified statement is invaluable. "Less is
> Incidentally, I'd prefer to say that authentication is conducted by
> "authenticator" and "authenticatee". Meaning is fairly obvious.
There's also client/server, but I think the 11x people felt this would
too easy to grasp.
Stefan
From: Reco
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2020 08:25:39 +0300
> [1] also states that:
>
> The wpasupplicant package ...
>
> In simplier terms: no wpasupplicant = no WPA2.
Your simplified statement is invaluable. "Less is more".
The rather inscrutable section entitled "wpa_supplicant" follows the
section
On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 05:35:18PM -0600, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> This stanza was added in /etc/network/interfaces
> allow-hotplug wlxe894f6248352
> iface wlxe894f6248352 inet dhcp
> wpa2-ssid Alcatel
> wpa2-psk
[1] also states that:
The wpasupplicant package provides wpa-*
The instructions at https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse#Command_Line
required installation of these packages.
libiw30_30_pre9-13_i386.deb
wireless-tools_30_pre9-13_i386.deb
libnl-genl-3-200_3.4.0-1_i386.deb
libnl-3-200_3.4.0-1_i386.deb
iw_5.0.1-1_i386.deb
This stanza was added in
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