Re: [arch-general] Realtek RTL8111H NIC : does it just work?

2020-11-28 Thread SET via arch-general
Thank you all. I can now choose this board definitely.

Re: [arch-general] Realtek RTL8111H NIC : does it just work?

2020-11-28 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 11/28/20 3:01 PM, SET via arch-general wrote: Hello, I 'm planning to buy a PC with an MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI mother board, having a Realtek RTL8111H ethernet device, and install Arch of course. I 've seen many web pages about the need to install the r8168 package for it to work.

Re: [arch-general] Realtek RTL8111H NIC : does it just work?

2020-11-28 Thread Anthony VB via arch-general
On Sat, Nov 28, 2020 at 3:09 PM SET via arch-general < arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I 'm planning to buy a PC with an MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI mother > board, having a Realtek RTL8111H ethernet device, and install Arch of > course. > > I 've seen many web pages about the ne

[arch-general] Realtek RTL8111H NIC : does it just work?

2020-11-28 Thread SET via arch-general
Hello, I 'm planning to buy a PC with an MSI MPG X570 GAMING EDGE WIFI mother board, having a Realtek RTL8111H ethernet device, and install Arch of course. I 've seen many web pages about the need to install the r8168 package for it to work. Some pages hint that the r8169 driver should work too

Re: [arch-general] Systemd boot

2020-11-28 Thread u34
"Riccardo Paolo Bestetti" wrote: > I2'm trying to fully make sense of the boot process with systemd. > > I've read various pages from the manual, including bootup(7). There are > two points I don't fully understand. > > * Filesystem mounts during initrd > The man page, under the initrd section,

Re: [arch-general] Systemd boot

2020-11-28 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
On Sat Nov 28, 2020 at 1:58 PM CET, Lone_Wolf wrote: > Archlinux has its own boot process, described at [1] > > Check the initramfs section and you'll see a reference to mkinitcpio [2] > . > > On the mkinitcpio page look at the Common Hooks section. > > Basically there are 2 systems that archlinux

Re: [arch-general] Systemd boot

2020-11-28 Thread Lone_Wolf
On 28-11-2020 10:22, Riccardo Paolo Bestetti wrote: I2'm trying to fully make sense of the boot process with systemd. I've read various pages from the manual, including bootup(7). There are two points I don't fully understand. * Filesystem mounts during initrd The man page, under the initrd sec

[arch-general] Systemd boot

2020-11-28 Thread Riccardo Paolo Bestetti
I2'm trying to fully make sense of the boot process with systemd. I've read various pages from the manual, including bootup(7). There are two points I don't fully understand. * Filesystem mounts during initrd The man page, under the initrd section, says: "systemd detects that it is run within an

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 78

2020-11-28 Thread mpan
Thunderbird asks me to migrate my keys, and I am not sure, if I should not wait a few more days. Whatever you choose, a warning: set a strong master password for Thunderbird before doing the migration. Otherwise Thunderbird stores your private key unencrypted and there is no warning about the

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 78

2020-11-28 Thread NTS
Hello Nico, You cannot use gpg for public key operations but for secret key ops. Please follow the instructions for smartcards (no smartcard daemon needed obviously): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:OpenPGP:Smartcards Then you can use the external gpg with your ~/.gnupg for decryption and

Re: [arch-general] Thunderbird 78

2020-11-28 Thread NicoHood
Thunderbird 78 is in the repos for quite some time now. Can anyone please explain me what is the best way to use GPG now for email encryption? I read that Archlinux aims to use the system wide gpg keyring instead of thunderbirds builtin store. Is that still the case and is that implemented yet? Th