theNerd wrote:
Dear Debian Project,
I would like to purchase a Core i5 laptop with a MiniSD and MicroSD Card
Reader. Please can you recommend which SD card I should buy so I can
install Debian onto the card. This way, I can boot from the *card via
the BIOS instead of the hard drive. Any form
Bob wrote:
theNerd wrote:
Dear Debian Project,
I would like to purchase a Core i5 laptop with a MiniSD and MicroSD
Card Reader. Please can you recommend which SD card I should buy so I
can install Debian onto the card. This way, I can boot from the *card
via the BIOS instead of the hard
ptops. Therefore you should always have
reasonable backup and recovery plans anyway.
I was in the same situation with a high load count accumulated but
didn't replace my drive. However another failure (motherboard) about
a year later claimed my laptop and I ended up needing to repl
he last couple of years. I am sure that someone has already
analyzed the DSAs to show the required reboot rates. :-)
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uld probably be worse if they were human
moderated lists. Humans make mistakes. On other lists that I
moderate I have made a non-zero number of errors by being tired and
swamped with a large amount of mail. List moderation isn't a great
solution to high volume lists.
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can be relayed normally.
Most ISPs make port 587 and a mail relay available for this purpose.
2. Set up a VPN to a host on your home network such that your mail is
sent over the tunnelled connection and then can originate from your
home network. With this it is possible to rout
S searches for packages that contain that filename. You
don't have that file installed on your system and therefore won't have
any packages installed that would contain it. If you want to look to
see if any packages by that name are install then you would want to
use the -l
.html lists
the GeForce 9200M GS 0x06E8 as supported.
If you decide to try it please post your results. Then when the
next person searches for this combination they will get a review
noting it as either success or failure.
Good luck!
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should "just work" for you.
Alternatively you could install nullmailer and configure it to send
all mail off to a smarthost for handling. (I normally use nullmailer
in chroots to provide /usr/bin/sendmail and configure it to send all
mail to the localhost where the postfix in the supervisor system
really handles the mail.)
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7;wicd' package is available in the main section in Lenny.
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izScrollDelta" "0"
Option "SHMConfig" "true"
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
InputDevice "Generic Keyboard"
InputDevice "Configured Mouse"
InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
EndSection
> Anyone else reporting issues?
It works for me on both Etch and Lenny.
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our mailer to quote the quotes. That is very odd. It
would be better if that were fixed. Simply remove the quotes from
your name.
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of that then you might write to the
package maintainers for additional assistance in debugging. A generic
address supported by Debian for reaching the maintainers is of the
form PACKAGENAME @ packages.debian.org. Or in this particular case
gnome-volume-mana...@packages.debian.org should
pendent test.
I wish you hadn't cross-posted this question.
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James Brown wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Hmm... I recommend installing memtest86+ and then seeing how much
> > memory it detects at boot time.
> >
> > apt-get install memtest86+
> >
> > This should automatically install a grub boot entry and be very
James Brown wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > apt-get install memtest86+
>
> It see only 3GB, not 4GB.
I looked up the Acer TravelMate 3040 series and supposedly it has two
200-pin sodimm slots. This is an obvious question but are you sure
your two slots both have a 2G dimm
n. Configure dhcp to tell clients to use your server for the
nameserver. Seems like it should work fine.
> Thanks! I have been googling this all morning and I cannot believe
> that not many people have been in this situation before, it seems so
> commonplace.
I think most people are
Jonas Andradas wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Also, if you have an Apache web server enabled then the clients can
> > pull files by http. That may be even simpler for your purpose than
> > using ftp. However that would be a one way copy only. Still might be
> > usef
you have an easy, if moderatly
expensive, fix and then you are back solidly running again. It that
isn't it then I have no more ideas. Good luck!
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ake sure that Wake-On-LAN isn't enabled in the BIOS. Since that
would need to keep the LAN powered up while off or hibernated.
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ome hints as to your problem.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_ACPI_suspend-to-ram
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ot. (I am pulling for suspend2, aka TuxOnIce! :-)
Because there are many different independent systems that may be used
to suspend/hibernate a machine they aren't coordinated. Each
userspace wrapper has their own configuration process. GNOME versus
KDE versus systems without X Windows ve
t; cases where s2disk doesn't work?
Personally I think you have been lucky!
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re that is helpful.
http://www.schwieters.org/toshset/
http://www.buzzard.me.uk/toshiba/fan.html
In Debian:
$ apt-cache show toshset
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Just
hoping...
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menu is an "Edit Wireless Networks". You can delete
unwanted wifi connections and other actions.
Disclaimer: I am not updated with the latest Squeeze. This certainly
applies to Lenny. I may have stale information concerning Squeeze and
Sid if something has changed there.
Use of network-manager is a love-hate relationship with many of us.
Sometimes a lot more hate than love there. :-)
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you log out and log back in again to initialize the new
group for you.
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he Lenny version. And since I am behind I haven't
been tracking the changes in Sid and would have missed this behavior
change if it had gone in.
By the way... If you would be so kind as to edit and trim your
replies it would be appreciated.
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h0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Comment those two out. Or delete them entirely. Those are the lines
being refered to that refer to the network device.
> I did as the wiki page said, set managed=true in nm-system-settings.conf
Since that was an *OR* then I would restore the settings i
oted MS-Windows previously and
maybe the thresholds were set there. If you have it available perhaps
boot into MS and use the interface there to check the charge settings
and perhaps adjust them? Perhaps on your machine those settings
control the charge behavior even when booting Debian?
B
eresting.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/08/msg00022.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/04/msg02554.html
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the linux-image-2.6-686 meta package so that future
updates are automatically selected.
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PI or PMU.
It needs some training. But given that it does perform fairly well.
Unfortunately it isn't tied into the system tray tools and so isn't
going to be a seemless integration there. It is available in gkrellm
if you use that stack. See the gkrellm-ibam package.
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t it is at least something.
$ sudo apt-get install gkrellm gkrellm-ibam
$ gkrellm &
(shrug)
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he solution is to read the release notes and to
upgrade the kernel first and reboot to run it before upgrading the
rest of the system.
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mand is 'install' and not 'upgrade'. A very
common mistake is to try to 'apt-get upgrade SOME_PACKAGE' and that
doesn't do what you expect.
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's why I didn't
> want to upgrade the kernel at all. If I had read the release notes
> first, as Said Bob, i Could upgrade my kernel and install all
> additional modules to prevent the current problems.
I didn't mention it but as far as I can tell there aren't com
Ji ZhengYu wrote:
> Yes, I do as what Bob said, and everything seems to OK.
So you get a boot and a text console streaming boot up messages okay?
> But when I reboot system again, the X system can't work any more.
> Screen is black (nothing), and no logs exist in /var/log/X.log.
r-xorg-input-wacom.rules
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ailing list, do not send a
carbon copy (CC) to the original poster unless they explicitly
request to be copied.
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Alexander Batischev wrote:
> We're talking in English here, but as far as there's no
> debian-user-spanish@, I think that's not a big deal.
There is debian-user in Spanish here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/
I am not concerned but just wanted to point out t
That is a
high volume mailing list.
http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png
The debian-laptop list is for discussion specific to Debian on mobile
computers primarily laptops. But general user discussion that isn't
specific to laptops should be on debian-user.
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Vladan Cvejic wrote:
> Please,
>
> if someone could prevent this from happening - this is obviously spam with
> porn commercials. And this is not the only one ... I am receiving similar
> from other countries via debian-laptop, debian-firewall etcSomeone
> should check mails
Please do NOT rep
ty good. But an old and worn out battery may
only show a last full capacity of 10 watt-hours or worse!
If you post your information about your battery then folks on this
list can help diagnose it.
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/BAT0/manufacturer
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/serial_number
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/alarm
> Does this have something to do with installing the "laptop version"
> of debian?
No. But it has everything to do with having a failed battery.
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orms and even though it says 3.3 AH it may result in
something much different after a few battery cycles.
But if you remove AC power and the machine drops out immediately
without any sign of battery being used then something bad is
happening. Perhaps the firmware is lying to you. It wouldn
Bob Proulx wrote:
> > design capacity: 4400 mAh
> > last full capacity: 3334 mAh
> > remaining capacity: 4400 mAh
Oh! I just saw something else too. This is definitely conflicting
information from the battery. The last full capacity is 3.3 AH but it
has 4.4
any help for the suspend problems. Does
hibernate to disk work better than suspend to ram?
Bob
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en I suggest repeating the above one last time using
the experimental linux-image-3.7-trunk-$ARCH kernel.
I would avoid the work of the full re-install, it isn't needed, and
try the newer kernels out in isolation first. If any of those work
then you are good to go.
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Chris Evans wrote:
> I can vouch for that fixing both the screen resolution and the
> suspend problem.
Yay!
Just to add more information here for other people with that laptop,
which kernel did you end up using for your machine?
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aker,
> so I don't know what it would use)?
You didn't say what laptop model you have but my ThinkPad needs the
'tpb' (think pad buttons) package installed to handle those
functions. Here is some documentation on it.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tpb
Perhaps your laptop is similar.
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For an
alternative see s2disk and s2ram.
> Second: if so, can I alternatively tell it to sleep after an absence of
> activity from my LAN, with WOMP/WOL? (Wake-on-Magic-Packet)
I use the 'sleepd' package to suspend after an idle period when on
battery.
And of course WOL is a hardwar
ned installing Debian on your system so I don't see how this
involves Debian any more than if you had installed Gentoo or Arch.
The Linux kernels in those Gentoo and Arch are much more similar to
Ubuntu than Debian.
Sorry. Good luck!
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e boot messages are preserved as they were before.
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y much dead. It came up for discussion elsewhere which is why I
am familiar with it. I don't know if the tool still works or not. If
so then great. If not then I would use the smartctl -A to dump the
hdd temperature sensor data and extract it from there.
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be fine.
File /etc/hdparm.conf:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST2000DM001-9YN_S1E0CAP9 {
apm = 254
}
Without that the load cycle count was climbing at an average of nine
head parking load cycle count increases per hour every hour. With the
above setting in place the load cycle c
-64 systems
instead of AMD64 systems. But that didn't happen.
I have been enjoying the influx of ARM cpus due to their more
efficient power envelope. In the end will the ARM architecture be
more dominant? Who can know the future before it is written? It is
positioned well for it.
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name? Also any alternative that I can brainstorm is worse.
Of course this is in the realm of the lkml (linux kernel mailing list)
and not any Debian one.
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vailable. What would be the improvement in this case?
And I must note that with a signature line prominently displaying your
email address of nitpick...@nitpicking.com and your blog there (good
reading by the way) this type of discussion seems very much
appropriate. :-)
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on a tightrope between two balloons.
Is it possible. Yes. Has it been done. Yes. Would *I* walk a tight
rope between two hot air balloons? NO!!
Backup your data. Install a fresh 64-bit system. Copy your data back.
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Aniyan Rajan wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > Also the most important detail you left out. How much memory do you
> > have? Do you have more than 4 gig of memory?
>
> No, I have only 2 gig.
With only 2G of ram there is no significant advantage to you to be
running a 64-bit sy
zero
shouldn't seem to brick the unit. Is that not true on the Chromebook?
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requires a change to the
> read-only BIOS, which isn't possible with an update.
And so I think the machine can't be updated. In the old days we would
pop out the ROMs and replace them. I doubt that is possible here but
that is the type of thing that seems to be needed.
The mach
uot;real" keyboard then the X
series won't be a good fit for you.
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d more of them will have experience running
virtual private servers in a variety of configurations.
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on
your machine.
apt-get install -t wheezy-backports firmware-iwlwifi
Then reboot. Hopefully that will have your system running!
Bob
Here is wiki page that documents how to get backports set up on your
system. Ask questions if any of this is unclear.
https://wiki.debian.org/Backports
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atic IP address. My laptop always has a static address on
my VPN network and therefore the dynamically assigned IP address no
longer matters to me. My router is also a Debian system and both it
and my mobile devices can easily run OpenVPN.
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l installers to keep a /home folder,
> then even that would not be required.
People often do just that with maintaining a /home that is untouched
upon system installation. It is a very common scheme. Myself I
prefer to have a good backup elsewhere.
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y to exceed limitations in size
of the previous schemes. As storage has gotten bigger it has exceeded
the capabilities of the previous schemes.
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Dave Horsfall wrote:
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9565 Wireless
> Network Adapter (rev 01)
> ...
> So it's an Atheros chip.
Try installing the firmware-atheros package.
# apt-get install firmware-atheros
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tall using debootstrap. The Debian wiki has
instructions for this process. Due to the low memory I think the
livecd boot will be more painfully slow.
4. Other things I didn't think of but other people will think of and
suggest. :-)
Good luck!
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es that can install OpenWRT, Tomato, DD-WRT, and
the others. But most of the WRT54G series had too little memory and
flash and couldn't install other firmware bundles.
It is a long gray scale. It really isn't quite so black and white.
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On Tue, May 05, 2015 at 09:57:17AM +, Ulff Kleber wrote:
> I have no idea what has gone wrong. A laptop with only text mode is fairly
> useless.
>
Only to someone who hasn't put out the effort to learn to do things with
the CLI.
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A fair fight is the
pages on my system to be the web
browsers Chromium and Firefox (Iceweasel). The web has gotten to be a
ram hog and when my machine is in need of memory I exit the web
browsers first.
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gig or less of memory. And it will take 64-bit ARM
before we can get more than 4G into them.
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in the
/var/log/Xorg.0.log file? Start debugging there.
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Jan-Rens Reitsma wrote:
> Bob Proulx wrote:
> > If my laptop had a slot to insert another dimm that would be great. I
> > would happily stuff several more gigs into it. But I can't. My
> > ThinkPad T60p is already max'd out at 4G. I could buy many more 4G
>
then it looks like a
deficiency of that gnome package that it has replaced the previous.
As I said, I eschew those and therefore can't tell if GNOME-PackageKit
notifies now or not. I can only presume that it does.
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to switch
back to the main interface. Hopefully it will print something in the
debug tracing window that will indicate what problem it is having.
I am expecting that there is an error of some sort and therefore it
can't install grub on your system.
Note that the rescue mode can also boot int
most do not
work. The only way that works for me is to set net.ifnames=0 on the
kernel command line. None of the other alternatives work for me.
In /etc/default/grub edit it this way.
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="net.ifnames=0 quiet"
And then run 'update-grub' and reboot.
# update-grub
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r Unstable and also running out
of disk space I will ask how often you run synaptic's equivalent to
'apt-get clean'? (I never run synaptic so don't know the commands
there. But there should be something equivalent.)
That removes downloaded packages. Otherwise they will build up there
and be a common source of disk space problems.
du -sh /var/cache/apt/archives/
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cycles of usb errors.
Has anyone else already fought through these battles?
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tpb seems non-functional for my X220. At least it doesn't seem to
have any noticable effect. Yes I have set myself into the nvram
group. And yes the Thinkwiki is a wonderful resource!
My preference would be to have tpb handle these keys because then I
get the osd on-screen-display feedback for their actions.
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console as well as
in an X session.
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this
hardware combination in Debian? I am sure this hardware used to be
fully supported and therefore hardware support must have been dropped
at some point.
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(I had many optimizations there, but then i gave my TP60 away and i
> think they reinstalled a Windows 7 so i can't look up the configs)
Thanks for the help anyway! :-)
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dekks herton wrote:
> The current FOSS ati driver works fine on my T60p with V5250, installed first
> time.
Yes. Me too! Although this happens to be an older version of the
software. Makes me worry that it would start failing upon an upgrade.
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micr
dekkz...@gmail.com wrote:
> On 05/13, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > This following is on the problematic machine.
> > Graphics: Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV530/M56 GL [Mobility
> > FireGL V5200] bus-ID: 01:00.0
> > Display Server: X.org 1.19.2 dr
Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Bob Proulx writes:
> > Fresh install of Debian Stretch 9. X11 starts in software rendering
> > mode. The same laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 runs with hardware rendering.
> >
> > Any hints on how what is needed for hardware rendering with this
> > h
t is good to hear. Maybe they should make that the default
mode moving forward.
Thanks for mentioning that DRI2 is the default and DRI3 may be
optionally enabled. That is a good tidbit to know.
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ebmin ?) of these services only
on loopback ?
Debian testing.
Bob
tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 5549/portmap
tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:1 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 21571/perl
tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:800.0.0.0:* LISTEN 21430/apache
tcp0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 5888/
very good indication that I am sending
spam.
Does anybody have any experience of how to fix things so this will work?
Colin,
only loosely related to you question: your workplace does not offer some
kind of VPN (IPSEC or wathever) to mobile users ?
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Colin Cotter wrote:
Thanks for your reply Bob. They do provide VPN, but I haven't been able
to find out how to do this under Linux. Do you have experience of this
working?
Ask you IT support staff what kind of VPN they support and once you set
that up you will be working from remote
Mildy OT :)
Wanted to retrieve the CVS branch of madwifi to get my Thinkpad T40 wifi
up and running.
Is it possible that in order to have the cvs command to download the
stuff I have to install the full CVS package with what seems a CVS
server on my machine ?
TIA,
Bob
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I'd like to write the same nice box with External video on/off (and do
the same thing for wifi).
Thank you,
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Eric Cooper wrote:
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 02:21:32PM +, Bob Alexander wrote:
I see quite a few services active on my Thinkpad. Most of them should be
usable only from loopback and not on the eth0 interface. I tried looking
at inetd.conf but it's empty.
Where do I go to bind some
sometimes, but not always get.
Oct 6 14:43:03 t40 kernel: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 11) is a 16550A
while sometimes the ttyS2 device is not created at all.
Anyone know of this problem ?
TIA,
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