-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2014-03-21 04:30, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: > On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:33:17 +0700 Ken Heard > <kensli...@teksavvy.com> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 2014-03-19 23:02, Steve Litt of Troubleshooters.Com wrote: >> >>> * Tell it to include the nonfree repos >> >> Did not, but ending up installing the ones I needed anyway. > > Hi Ken, > > Humor me... > > Unless you have a similar objection to nonfree software that > Stallman has,
On this issue I am not a fanatic like Stallman, although I see his point. > just for fun tell it to install nonfree at installation time. I am not sure how to do this. Is there an option to add to the install command line? If there is such an option would it add non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list? When I finished the installation I discovered that the non-free options were not in that file; so I added them manually. > For one thing, it makes things more "just works", which is how the > thread started, but also, it's remotely possible you *didn't* > install that one nonfree software that would have made LVM work > with your brand new hardware. The one thing which the installer asked during installation process what whether I wanted to install firmware-iwlwifi so that the wireless feature of the mainboard to connect with wireless peripherals e,g, a mouse would work. Since I did not need this feature I did not install this package as part of the installation. Later on I did install it, if only to stop the boot process from asking for it every time I booted the machine. For good measure I also installed firmware-linux-free and firmware-linux-nonfree, without knowing for sure whether I needed them. > That sounds bizarre, but might be possible. Example... > > Back in the day, Mandriva Linux came with a free Broadcom driver > and the nonfree. The free driver flat out didn't work, and if it > was installed, you had to disable it or it would deep-six the > nonfree driver that *did* work. The Gigabyte GA-Z87N-WIFI motherboard I am using has two built-in RJ-45 ethernet cards, one Intel and the other Atheros. The Intel one worked out of the box, so to speak; but the Atheros one did not, probably because it requires a driver which is not installed. Could something like this prevent LVM from working? In any event when I tried to install LVM after installing RAID1 the installer failed to go any further and produced a screenful of error messages. These I will send in as part of the installation report if, as and when I get around to preparing it. > Thanks very much for the wicd tip. When I'm not using Xfce, I'm > using Openbox, and nm-applet doesn't show up in Openbox, so I'm > always looking for another way of handling networks, beyond ifup > and wpa-supplicant. My pleasure. I found wicd when I was using a laptop which had wireless capability. That Gigabyte mainboard also has such capability, but I am not using it. Regards, Ken -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlMrzhIACgkQlNlJzOkJmTeaowCeMvlASxM6tkQyYqavipoR5zNe 6MIAmgKRGtpfi7ed2DI6P6DNjDuRUuHq =bazs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/532bce12.3020...@teksavvy.com
