On Sunday, March 29, 2020 08:50:11 PM David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-03-28 17:19, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > To clarifly / amplify -- I don't think it is going to be worth the
> > trouble to try to make it (the Wavlink) work.
>
> Well, that's no fun. :-(
;-)
> I have found that it is oft
On 2020-03-28 17:17, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, March 28, 2020 04:41:57 PM David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-03-28 12:18, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I received the Wavlink device, but I'm fairly certain I'm going
to return it and give up on it. (I'm not clear on what software
/ drive
On Saturday, March 28, 2020 08:17:56 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I haven't unwrapped the unit -- I'm returning the unit in the original,
> intact packaging.
To clarifly / amplify -- I don't think it is going to be worth the trouble to
try to make it (the Wavlink) work.
On Saturday, March 28, 2020 04:41:57 PM David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-03-28 12:18, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > I received the Wavlink device, but I'm fairly certain I'm going to return
> > it and give up on it. (I'm not clear on what software / drivers I'd
> > have to find and install, and
On 2020-03-28 12:18, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
I received the Wavlink device, but I'm fairly certain I'm going to return it
and give up on it. (I'm not clear on what software / drivers I'd have to find
and install, and the device says it doesn't support Linux (but does mention
that it works wit
On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 08:32:27 AM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Sunday, March 22, 2020 08:37:48 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> > In that other thread, I point out that I decided to buy a Wavlink 3.0
> > docking station (with HDMI, DVI, and VGA video outputs) (on sale today at
> > Newegg) and
On Monday, March 16, 2020 11:22:20 AM Dan Ritter wrote:
> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > > You could get a USB hub that could connect some peripherals --
> > > keyboard, mouse, printer, USB sticks... but nothing that will
> > > handle video or power connections.
> > > The generic laptop docks rely on h
On Tuesday, March 24, 2020 09:10:16 AM Joe wrote:
> USB hubs are not peer-peer like the old Ethernet hubs. USB is a (quite
> complex) master-submaster-slave protocol with each device negotiating
> for speed and bandwidth with the one 'above'. The electronics of a USB
> hub shares out the bandwidth
On Tue, 24 Mar 2020 08:32:27 -0400
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
>* because the device is a USB hub, maybe the laptop could be
> connected to one of the USB 3.0 ports
USB hubs are not peer-peer like the old Ethernet hubs. USB is a (quite
complex) master-submaster-slave protocol with each device
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hmm, just by accident today, I came across another device that could possibly
> do the job (in kind of a MacGyver-like approach ;-)
>
> I'll give a link to it, mention the price, point out the problems that might
> prevent it from doing the job, before I say that I d
On Sunday, March 22, 2020 08:37:48 PM rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> In that other thread, I point out that I decided to buy a Wavlink 3.0
> docking station (with HDMI, DVI, and VGA video outputs) (on sale today at
> Newegg) and a dual USB 3.0 ExpressCard on ebay (for under $10).
Hmm, just by acciden
On Monday, March 23, 2020 02:27:17 AM David Christensen wrote:
> The 187 MB/s is a worst-case scenario for FHD video -- decode on the CPU
> and send uncompressed frames over USB 3.0 to the video RAM in the
> docking station. Hopefully Debian, Linux, Xorg, whatever, have the
> architecture and driv
On 2020-03-22 17:37, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks to all who replied, to either this thread or my other related one,
"Speed of USB ports on Inspiron 1501".
In that other thread, I point out that I decided to buy a Wavlink 3.0 docking
station (with HDMI, DVI, and VGA video outputs) (on sale t
Thanks to all who replied, to either this thread or my other related one,
"Speed of USB ports on Inspiron 1501".
In that other thread, I point out that I decided to buy a Wavlink 3.0 docking
station (with HDMI, DVI, and VGA video outputs) (on sale today at Newegg) and
a dual USB 3.0 ExpressCard
Hi there,
On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, rhkramer wrote:
(Aside: I need to get a docking station with a VGA output as I "run" the
laptop through a KVM switch and one of the computers connected to it has no
HDMI output, and the KVM switch itself has no HDMI input.)
I get the idea (or I am
On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:22:44 + (GMT)
"G.W. Haywood" wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2020, rhkramer wrote:
>
> > (Aside: I need to get a docking station with a VGA output as I
> > "run" the laptop through a KVM switch and one of the computers
> > connected to it has no HDMI output,
>>> Any recommendations for a suitable docking station?
I'd go with a good old powered USB2 hub, and connect keyboard, mouse, and
whatever
else you want to that. That should get you down to one USB and one VGA cable.
>> The generic laptop docks rely on high-bandwidth, high-power USB3 ports,
and l
On 3/16/20 9:50 AM, Andrii Borovyi wrote:
Once again I though about getting a dock station for my Dell Vostro
3360. Seems like there is no easy solution there. The only thing I
discovered is to switch to Latitude or XPS models (sorry, but no
Inspiron nor Vostro) that have support for docking s
Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > You could get a USB hub that could connect some peripherals --
> > keyboard, mouse, printer, USB sticks... but nothing that will
> > handle video or power connections.
> > The generic laptop docks rely on high-bandwidth, high-power USB3
> > ports, and laptop support for
On Mon 16 Mar 2020 at 08:42:17 (-0400), rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> (Aside: I need to get a docking station with a VGA output as I "run" the
> laptop through a KVM switch and one of the computers connected to it has no
> HDMI output, and the KVM switch itself has no HDMI input.)
If it helps, yo
Once again I though about getting a dock station for my Dell Vostro 3360. Seems
like there is no easy solution there. The only thing I discovered is to switch
to Latitude or XPS models (sorry, but no Inspiron nor Vostro) that have support
for docking stations. Unfortunately, that's the only res
> You could get a USB hub that could connect some peripherals --
> keyboard, mouse, printer, USB sticks... but nothing that will
> handle video or power connections.
> The generic laptop docks rely on high-bandwidth, high-power USB3
> ports, and laptop support for alternate video modes sent over
>
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> I'm thinking about buying a laptop docking station to make it easier to
> disconnect the laptop to take it to meetings.
>
> I don't know much about a laptop docking station except that the ones I've
> looked at seem to need only a USB (C or A) cable to connect the lapt
rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Asking this OT question here because this is my go to list for questions,
> especially ones for which I don't belong to a list that might be more
> specific
> to this subject.
>
> Background: I've installed Buster on an old laptop (my newest laptop, a Dell
> Inspir
Asking this OT question here because this is my go to list for questions,
especially ones for which I don't belong to a list that might be more specific
to this subject.
Background: I've installed Buster on an old laptop (my newest laptop, a Dell
Inspiron 1501) and I'm working on installing oth
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