[Trisquel-users] Can see wifi network, but can't connect

2019-07-06 Thread alexander . pitsch
Hey all, I've just replaced the Lenovo firmware on my T400 with libreboot. During this process, I've also replaced the laptop's wifi chip with an Atheros AR9285 chipset. It seems to me, like the new wifi chip is also recognized as $ lspci gives $ ... $ 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcom

Re: [Trisquel-users] Can see wifi network, but can't connect

2019-07-06 Thread alexander . pitsch
Was to easy in the end: $ sudo service network-manager stop $ service network-manager start Immediately got connected to the wifi network.

[Trisquel-users] Librebooted Thinkpad T400 SSD recommendations/restrictions

2019-07-13 Thread alexander . pitsch
Hi all, I'm considering to buy a SSD to speed up my librebooted Thinkpad T400. Have you got any recommendations on what SSD to get? And, do I have to restrict my self in choosing the SSD to stay fully libre? What I've found so far in this forum was this thread (https://trisquel.info/en/forum/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Librebooted Thinkpad T400 SSD recommendations/restrictions

2019-08-07 Thread alexander . pitsch
@nadebula.1984 Thanks for you suggestion. Recently replaced the HDD with your suggested SSD :)

[Trisquel-users] VPN connection gets dropped within 10 minutes

2019-08-12 Thread alexander . pitsch
Hi all, today I've tried setting up a VPN on my ThinkPad T400 using the network-manager. Following this tutorial (https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-import-openvpn-ovpn-file-with-networkmanager-commandline/) I've imported the respective .ovpn files and added my user credentials in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] VPN connection gets dropped within 10 minutes

2019-08-12 Thread alexander . pitsch
Possibly related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager-openvpn/+bug/1586570/comments/5

Re: [Trisquel-users] VPN connection gets dropped within 10 minutes

2019-08-24 Thread alexander . pitsch
Following the steps in the tutorial solved the VPN connection issue for me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot install python-pip, python-typing

2019-12-22 Thread alexander . pitsch
When programming with python in general, you might want to have multiple versions of python available - and even if not required by your developing work, you still might want to separate the system python from the python version you use for programming. An extremely handy tool for this is p

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel & OpenVPN Not Getting Along

2020-01-01 Thread alexander . pitsch
If I understand you correctly, you can connect to the Internet (without the VPN) but once the VPN connection is established, you can't access any website anymore. Am I reading you correctly? Also, have you tried connecting to the VPN via the network manager GUI or the openvpn CLI?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel & OpenVPN Not Getting Along

2020-01-02 Thread alexander . pitsch
Ok, thanks for the clarification. So, in my case I also lost all internet connectivity once I have connected to my VPN via the network manager GUI. The same VPN however did work (i.e. I had internet connectivity) when I used the command line to connect to the VPN like so $ sudo openvpn /p

[Trisquel-users] Dockingstation only partially working

2020-03-14 Thread alexander . pitsch
Hi all, I've recently purchased a dockingstation for my librebooted T400. I can plug the laptop in easily, however I can only use some connectors of the dockingstation: + I do get power from the dockingstation. + The audio jack of the dockingstation works. - All USB ports of the dockingstatio

[Trisquel-users] Software sources don't appear in Software & Updates

2020-04-15 Thread alexander . pitsch
Hi all! Recently I've installed the Signal & Riot desktop client on Trisquel 8 via their respective installation instructions (pasted in here for reference). Signal: $ curl -s https://updates.signal.org/desktop/apt/keys.asc | sudo apt-key add - $ echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://updates.signa

[Trisquel-users] Donating to Trisquel via Liberapay or Open Collective

2020-04-15 Thread alexander . pitsch
Hi all, just realized the main way of donating to Trisquel is via PayPal... Can one donate to Trisquel via Liberapay or Open Collective as well? If not, what's the problem with those plattforms?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Software sources don't appear in Software & Updates

2020-04-15 Thread alexander . pitsch
Oh, forgot to mention that I've replaced the $(lsb_release -cs) in the Riot installation process with xenial

Re: [Trisquel-users] Software sources don't appear in Software & Updates

2020-04-16 Thread alexander . pitsch
Ok - issue kind of resolved: The [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/riot-im-archive-keyring.gpg] in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/riot-im/list was the culprit. Removing this and importing the .gpg key in the "Authentification" tab made the riot repo also appear in "Software & Updates" > "Other Softwar

Re: [Trisquel-users] Import public key

2020-04-19 Thread alexander . pitsch
Hey, by default, Enigmail uses gpg2 for key management. Could you therefore please try to import the key on the command line with gpg2 --import /path/to/public-key and see if that works?

[Trisquel-users] gpg2 --refresh-keys fails

2020-04-21 Thread alexander . pitsch
***BEGIN DISCLAIMER*** more nicely formatted question here [0] ***END DISCLAIMER*** Hi all, I've been experiencing problems with $ gpg2 --refresh-keys gpg: refreshing 18 keys from hkps://keys.openpgp.org gpg: keyserver refresh failed: General error As you can gather from the above, I've config

Re: [Trisquel-users] Import public key

2020-04-24 Thread alexander . pitsch
Hi, you can always list your public keys with gpg2 --list-public-keys You should also be able to see them in Icedove Mail > Enigmail > Key Management. Glad you seem to have found a solution to your problem. Have a nice weekend.