Re: [Trisquel-users] Bright control on Trisquel

2017-04-29 Thread infinityfallen
It's certainly possible to make them work. Unforunately, in cutting back on the excesses of the major DEs, LXDE has thrown the metaphorical baby out with the metaphorical bathwater- implementing that functionality is left to the user. In terms of the actual process of doing that, there's in

[Trisquel-users] Bright control on Trisquel

2017-04-29 Thread eloi . igor
Today I installed Trisquel LXDE on a old laptop. There is apparently no bright controller. Nor does the keys assembled with functions (raise and shrink sound, control bright, switch wireless) seems to work. It has to be possible to make em work. How should I start? Never used LXDE before, t

Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison

2017-04-29 Thread infinityfallen
Please note that I've no intention of attacking the project. I backed it- everything from a demonstrable commitment to liberty and environmental conscience to the disproportionately impressive concept of internal USB ports- and am thus far satisfied with Luke's updates on progress, even if

[Trisquel-users] Make PC a streaming server

2017-04-29 Thread freeworld4
How can I setup my pc to stream media files anywhere? Also I'd like to ssh into my computer and be able to access youtube-dl to download m4a audio files from youtube. How do I setup ssh?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem

2017-04-29 Thread boarts4
Is there another way to reinstall besides a bootable usb, cd, or dvd? I don't have the option to use cd or dvd and the usb I had no luck with.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem

2017-04-29 Thread pinmaritim
Hi justinTime I have the same issue on a Lenovo T400 with Azerty Keyboard, when it boot up the keyboard my case stays Qwerty.So i reinstalled and chose to make along passphrase with "only the same letters" that one can find on a Azerty & Qwerty Keyboard.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working

2017-04-29 Thread mkl80
I had talked about this problem in the forum more than once. But please permit me to repeat: The wireless thing is big factor for people to go away from Trisquel. We are told always the solution: buy in think penguim a wireless card, but if the prices are too high for our wallets, is there not

Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy US law now allows collecting data without consent

2017-04-29 Thread greatgnu
Howdy mangy :) there always are..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working

2017-04-29 Thread greatgnu
>I have no reason to believe it might work You are right. Proprietary firmware is required for it to work.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem

2017-04-29 Thread boarts4
Unfortunately when I put my USB drive into the computer it doesn't give me any option to do anything with it. Everything just remains the same in GRUB as I described above. I'm pretty certain that I didn't trick myself or mistype my password. I was very careful and took my time while typi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working

2017-04-29 Thread teodorescup
You are right. I rushed to jump to conclusion and I didn't pay proper attention to the outputs. The driver is "RTL8723BE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter" and I have no reason to believe it might work. Sorry for any inconveniences to everyone.

Re: [Trisquel-users] The Replicant project calls for the Android SDK to be included in Trisuqel. Can you help?

2017-04-29 Thread legimet . calc
It will be in Trisquel 8: http://archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/pool/main/a/android-sdk-meta/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem

2017-04-29 Thread fil . bergamo
Not sure about that... ..but the trivial answer would be that either you ACTUALLY mistype your password, OR you tricked yourself when writing down the password, and the one you noted down isn't exactly the one you created.. Can you try to reinstall everything with a simpler password, just to

[Trisquel-users] The Replicant project calls for the Android SDK to be included in Trisuqel. Can you help?

2017-04-29 Thread fil . bergamo
Hello everyone, here's the announcement: http://blog.replicant.us/2017/04/there-wont-be-a-replicant-6-0-sdk-because-there-is-already-something-better/ Basically, the Replicant project won't be maintaining a libre version of the Android SDK anymore. The reason is that it will be included in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem

2017-04-29 Thread boarts4
It also says, "No key available with this passphrase," before the part where it says, "mdadm: CREATE group disk not found." There is also a list of commands before and after those two lines I just mentioned but they don't mean anything to me.

[Trisquel-users] Installing Trisquell/Disk Encryption Problem

2017-04-29 Thread boarts4
When I tried to install Trisquel from a USB drive I had no problems until I tried to start the system. During installation I chose to encrypt my hard drive and I set a password making sure they matched and I wrote it down before I actually typed it. I used 20 characters of a mixture of uppe

[Trisquel-users] Re : Privacy US law now allows collecting data without consent

2017-04-29 Thread pinmaritim
Hi SuperTramp83 There is pros & cons about TBB via VPN ==> https://airvpn.org/tor/ https://www.bestvpn.com/blog/42672/using-vpn-tor-together/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working

2017-04-29 Thread jason
This link you've provided is not for a WiFi card but an HECI controller (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_Embedded_Controller_Interface), which has nothing to do with your WiFi card. So we need to ignore that particular h-node link, since that isn't a WiFi card, and start over from sc

Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy US law now allows collecting data without consent

2017-04-29 Thread greatgnu
Either bridges or VPN before Tor. You connect to the VPN and after that you open the TorBB. That will hide Tor usage from the ISP. The ISP will know you use a VPN and will only see encrypted traffic the whole time. I highly recommend everyone to use a decent VPN all the time, it's the bare m

Re: [Trisquel-users] How would I go about launching Icecat from firetools through a tar?

2017-04-29 Thread greatgnu
Nice! cheers mate :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless not working

2017-04-29 Thread enduzzer
What do you mean "does not see it"? Not detected at all? What does 'lspci' say? Is it on? Ie. not disabled in BIOS.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Wireless not working

2017-04-29 Thread pinmaritim
If it worked for Trisquel 6, there's a good chance it will work on Trisquel 7 is that your question? You can try, and if unsucessfull try with installing the latest kernel from https://jxself.org/linux-libre/ There is also wifi dongles at Thinkpenguin https://www.thinkpenguin.com/catalog/wirel

[Trisquel-users] Wireless not working

2017-04-29 Thread teodorescup
I have found that my wireless should work with free software and exactly Trisquel for that matter; on h-node [1]. However Trisquel (7) does not see it. Do I have to configure the kernel module or do some manual settings for it to work ? https://h-node.org/hostcontrollers/view/en/1545/Inte

Re: [Trisquel-users] Privacy US law now allows collecting data without consent

2017-04-29 Thread chris
As far as blocking the ISP this works for all your devices: https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-mini-vpn-router-tpe-r1100 It won't stop websites from tracking you or anything like that... it's mainly to hinder an ISP from spying on you where you don't need a super p

Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison

2017-04-29 Thread chris
A story has been written and the video has been posted: http://freekeene.com/ The video you see here is video of another media correspondent and it does not place me in the best of light. I had no reason to think I'd be arrested that night. I took no initiative to make myself look good for t

Re: [Trisquel-users] Arrested for filming : CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police : faces up to year in prison

2017-04-29 Thread chris
Yea- I'm aware. Nobody has had harsher penalties applied as of yet so if they did it would be quite a case considering the very meaning contradicts the accusation and labelling. Free stater implies participation in the Free State Project which is a migration of those who believe in freedom an