Re: [PLUG] ER-X: pingable, but cannot log in

2019-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: The config restore is going to obliterate the config, including your username password change, so do that second. Ah, yes. I should have realized that. Well, since changing laptops resolved the connectivity issues I can quickly re-do everything on th

Re: [PLUG] Kernel upgrade 4.15 to 5.2, possible?

2019-12-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 14:21:31 -0800 Russell Senior dijo: >looks like you want: linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge That did it! After rebooting: uname -a Linux Devil-Thinkpad 5.3.0-24-generic #26~18.04.2-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 26 12:34:22 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux And the wifi is now w

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: pingable, but cannot log in

2019-12-20 Thread Russell Senior
The config restore is going to obliterate the config, including your username password change, so do that second. On Fri, Dec 20, 2019, 15:25 Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: > > > You need to configure your laptop with a static IP, at least until you > get > > th

Re: [PLUG] gnome2-like behavior from gnome3?

2019-12-20 Thread Ben Koenig
My understanding is that MATE is the fork of the gnome-2 codebase to continue the original interface. At the same time, gnome-3 was forked as Cinnamon, the default interface in Linux Mint. The goal was essentially the same with the primary difference that cinnamon requires a certain level of hardw

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: pingable, but cannot log in

2019-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: You need to configure your laptop with a static IP, at least until you get the DHCP server on the ERX running again. Almost there. Now using the ThinkPad X200[1]. Did another power-on reset of the new ER-X. Connected the laptop to the router's eth0.

Re: [PLUG] gnome2-like behavior from gnome3?

2019-12-20 Thread Russell Senior
For me (and for people I'm trying to keep things easy for), the main thing I wanted was the Applications and Places menus at the top and the bar at the bottom. For those, look for the gnome tweak tool and look in "Extensions". On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:56 PM Keith Lofstrom wrote: > My first enco

[PLUG] gnome2-like behavior from gnome3?

2019-12-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
My first encounter with gnome3 was disturbing - way too much eye candy and gesture dependence and memory footprint. So, I stayed with older gnome2-using distros, but support for those is vanishing. I plan to use gnome2-emulating Mate with newer distros (specifically, from Scientific Linux 6 to S.L

Re: [PLUG] Kernel upgrade 4.15 to 5.2, possible?

2019-12-20 Thread Russell Senior
looks like you want: linux-image-generic-hwe-18.04-edge On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 2:18 PM Russell Senior wrote: > You should search for "linux-image-5.3". In ubuntu land, i've seen > references to hwe (hardware-enablement or something) used for supporting > new hardware on older releases. > > On F

Re: [PLUG] Kernel upgrade 4.15 to 5.2, possible?

2019-12-20 Thread Russell Senior
You should search for "linux-image-5.3". In ubuntu land, i've seen references to hwe (hardware-enablement or something) used for supporting new hardware on older releases. On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:59 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:23:02 -0800 (PST) > Rich Shepard dijo: >

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: change login, save, reboot, cannot connect

2019-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: You need to configure your laptop with a static IP, at least until you get the DHCP server on the ERX running again. I had it set to 192.168.1.101 with dhcp turned off. More when I have it. Rich ___ PLUG m

Re: [PLUG] Kernel upgrade 4.15 to 5.2, possible?

2019-12-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:23:02 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard dijo: >On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Another option that I have considered is to upgrade my 4.15 kernel >> to 5.2 right now, and otherwise stick with 18.04. Is this possible? >> And if so, is there a 'for dummies' guide so

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: change login, save, reboot, cannot connect

2019-12-20 Thread Russell Senior
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 1:18 PM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: > > > Did you restore the config I sent you, like I suggested? > > I need to be able to communicate with the router to do this. It was the > next > step after setting a username and password. But afte

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: change login, save, reboot, cannot connect

2019-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: Did you restore the config I sent you, like I suggested? I need to be able to communicate with the router to do this. It was the next step after setting a username and password. But after saving the change and rebooting, and rebooting the laptop, comm

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: change login, save, reboot, cannot connect

2019-12-20 Thread Russell Senior
On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 9:02 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: > > > Success? > > No. I was able to log in using ubnt/ubnt and change login name and > password. > Saved change and rebooted. Tried logging in again and it rejected both > ubnt/ubnt and the new login

Re: [PLUG] Kernel upgrade 4.15 to 5.2, possible?

2019-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, John Jason Jordan wrote: Another option that I have considered is to upgrade my 4.15 kernel to 5.2 right now, and otherwise stick with 18.04. Is this possible? And if so, is there a 'for dummies' guide somewhere? John, If Xubuntu has the kernels as pre-built, ready-to-ins

[PLUG] Kernel upgrade 4.15 to 5.2, possible?

2019-12-20 Thread John Jason Jordan
My new Thinkpad P73 has a pretty bleeding edge wifi: ●  Intel® AX200 Wi-Fi 6 802.11AX (2 x 2) & Bluetooth® 5.0 My Xubuntu 18.04 LTS is up to date, which means that it uses kernel 4.15.0-72-generic. On Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:45:48 -0800 Wes offered the following links to fix the problem: https://as

Re: [PLUG] ER-X: change login, save, reboot, cannot connect

2019-12-20 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 19 Dec 2019, Russell Senior wrote: Success? No. I was able to log in using ubnt/ubnt and change login name and password. Saved change and rebooted. Tried logging in again and it rejected both ubnt/ubnt and the new login name/password. ip showed no 192.168.0.0/16 LAN address for eth0 on