Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

2020-11-29 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/11/20 9:58 am, Gene Heskett wrote: Nominal power drain was about 250kwh an hour That's about 250kW then? :-) Richard

Re: Driver issues with GDM

2020-11-29 Thread Eugen Dedu
Hi Andrew, On my Dell 5510 the Wi-Fi is working only after installing firmware-iwlwifi from debian non-free: wget http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-iwlwifi_20200918-1_all.deb dpkg -i firmware-iwlwifi_20200918-1_all.deb Kind regards, Eugen

Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

2020-11-29 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 29 November 2020 05:32:04 Richard Hector wrote: > On 28/11/20 9:58 am, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Nominal power drain was about 250kwh an hour > > That's about 250kW then? :-) Yes. The original install had a 250kw sola transformer but it was destroyed by a lightning strike, so it got bypa

Re: Advice on laptop with USB-C port and USB-Type C Multipoint Adapter (and VGA)

2020-11-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As far as I understand, a USB to VGA adapter is basically just a video > card that just happens to connect via USB (instead of PCI-E or so), It could also be that its "USB-C to VGA" converts the displayport signal to VGA (in which case it will only work with those type C connectors which provid

Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

2020-11-29 Thread Wim
Hi, a bit of topic but Sway, a Wayland compositor is now available in Sid. It's a drop in replacement for i3wm. Works very well. On Wednesday, 25 November at 00:50, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Wicd is no longer needed but leaving it installed seems harmless. (When > wayland/weston is reliable I'

AMD Sea Islands GPU unusable

2020-11-29 Thread Guyenne Tsui
Hello, I am struggling at the moment to use the dGPU Radeon R5 M330 at the moment. It only works once or twice and never again in one boot. Entering any command that uses the graphics card with 'DRI_PRIME=1' environment variable causes the said command to freeze. Killing it cause my entire compute

Re: AMD Sea Islands GPU unusable

2020-11-29 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
I dont see anything in that log identifying the kernel version or Debian release. On Sun, Nov 29, 2020, 6:06 PM Guyenne Tsui wrote: > Hello, > > I am struggling at the moment to use the dGPU Radeon R5 M330 at the > moment. It only works once or twice and never again in one boot. Entering > any c

Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

2020-11-29 Thread peter
From: Reco Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:09:26 +0300 > I'm mildly curious how you managed to obtain a laptop which does not > have any kind of wireless connectivity, ... The machine is a Sharp Mebius PC-CB1-M1. https://jp.sharp/support/mebius/spec/pc_cb1_m1.html It has an 8P8C socket and a 6P2C s

Re: Fixing a Grub Foul-up

2020-11-29 Thread Martin McCormick
Dan Ritter writes: > Here's what you can do: > > On a good system, mount your drive. Let's pretend that it's > recognized as /dev/sdg, and you have a /boot on /dev/sdg1 and > a root partition on /dev/sdg2. > > ls -al /dev/disk/by-partuuid/| grep sdg > > will get you the partition UUIDs for that

Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

2020-11-29 Thread Doug McGarrett
On 11/29/20 9:42 PM, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: From: Reco Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 21:09:26 +0300 I'm mildly curious how you managed to obtain a laptop which does not have any kind of wireless connectivity, ... The machine is a Sharp Mebius PC-CB1-M1. https://jp.sharp/support/mebius/spec/pc_cb

Re: Instructions for command line usage of WiFi.

2020-11-29 Thread ghe2001
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Here's a script that turns WiFi on and off on my Dell laptop. (It works on my 2-hole desktop as well -- so the complexity. 'slsware' is my domain.) # Makes sure the primary Ethernet port (ETH0) is up and # sets a route to rrc through ETH0 (so SS