Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-13 Thread David Wright
On Wed 12 Aug 2020 at 17:05:01 (+0200), Albretch Mueller wrote: > > I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly > > non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a > > hardware failure. > > The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason > that keyboard doesn't plug directly to one and only one of the USB > ports (which I had used before just fine), but if connected through a > USB hub it works just fine. So I wonder what could be going on, or > "they" are just

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-12 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I recommend to thoroughly test your hardware using different OS (possibly > non-Linux) and if you manage to reproduce the problems, it would mean a > hardware failure. The only thing that I have "discovered" is that for whatever reason that keyboard doesn't plug directly to one and only one o

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-11 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 08 aug 20, 16:24:59, Albretch Mueller wrote: > > What do you think might be "technically" going on? Bugs: keyboard firmware, BIOS, Linux, etc. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-11 Thread Albretch Mueller
> I could not reproduce the issue outside Linux, but it only happens > occasionally thus not sure if it is that. Well, that would show it is not a hardware issue > Technically, I would think that you are experiencing either a hardware fault > or a driver issue. I know that on my laptop, there is

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-08 Thread Linux-Fan
Albretch Mueller writes: I found those links but not thorough Information: [...] I browse the Internet using a USB wifi dongle and Windows and then take out the drive and use Linux for my own business. I removed the network and bluetooth cards, as well as the wireless antenna of that lap

Re: is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-08 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Sat, Aug 8, 2020, 10:25 AM Albretch Mueller wrote: > I found those links but not thorough Information: > > > https://linux.slashdot.org/story/02/06/15/1416224/a-web-browser-in-your-bios > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7531000/javascript-access-to-hardware I will take the first part

is there a way to corrupt the BIOS and/or the keybord on you laptop from the Internet? ...

2020-08-08 Thread Albretch Mueller
I found those links but not thorough Information: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/02/06/15/1416224/a-web-browser-in-your-bios https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7531000/javascript-access-to-hardware Here is my problem: I browse the Internet using a USB wifi dongle and Windows and then ta