Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
Sounds promising if I can sneak into the house with my ether cable while my daughter is at work. mick in hellharbour On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 11:21, Genes Lists wrote: > > On 1/27/23 19:02, Genes Lists wrote: > > > > It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance > > to chec

Re: Where can I get last source pkg for hylafax before it was dropped in 2021?

2023-01-27 Thread Sadeep Madurange
On 2023-01-26 20:16:35, David C. Rankin wrote: > On 1/26/23 17:35, Markus Schaaf wrote: > > > > https://github.com/archlinux/ > > > > It is either in svntogit-packages or svntogit-community. Find the commit > > that dropped the package and checkout the predecessor. > > I must not know how to sea

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
I do have wifi on my laptop getting internet but I haven't tried to use it beyond email and browsing the web. I am now struggling to to wrap my mind around new concepts, I'm 70 y.o. and in poor health, the cause of my moving 1000 km from where I had everything working and had contacts. mick in hell

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 19:02, Genes Lists wrote: It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance to check but if so, then the in-kernel driver for realtec dongle may just work out of the box for some of the chipsets: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220518082318.3898514-1-s.ha...@pe

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance to check but if so, then the in-kernel driver for realtec dongle may just work out of the box for some of the chipsets: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220518082318.3898514-1-s.ha...@pengutronix.de/ regards, gene

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 18:43, Genes Lists wrote: (3) Since ether over power didnt work would it work to add a second access point closer even if not all the way? duh sorry - brain fart - ignore that - lol ... obviously no help at all without working wifi. where's my coffee ... gene

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
On 1/27/23 18:02, mick howe wrote: I have just moved to a house where I can't get an Ethernet connection to the broadband 'modem' so I need to finally adopt a wifi setup to ... listed as might work. I tried to build it on the laptop with aur but 1. a way to build the driver for the Archer T3

Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
I have just moved to a house where I can't get an Ethernet connection to the broadband 'modem' so I need to finally adopt a wifi setup to connect my two desktops and random Raspberry Pi and Arduinos to the 'modem' & the internet. That raises two problems: I don't know anything about wifi except for

Re: setting time

2023-01-27 Thread Genes Lists
Fons - as you noted you have a bug time delta to square away - I'd boot to single user and set the clock to be about right - then set hardware clock. I would do something like : date -s 'xxx' or as you suggested timedatectl --set-time 'xxx' then hwclock --systohc --utc After reboot - to keep

Re: setting time

2023-01-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2023-01-27 at 12:39 +0100, Fons Adriaensen wrote: > Is using timedatectl set-time a safe way to fix this ? In other > words, would a system time jump cause problems ? Hi, it depends. However, I'm still using an acient script running ntpdate 0.de.pool.ntp.org && hwclock --set --date "$(da

setting time

2023-01-27 Thread Fons Adriaensen
Hello all, A friend (who is by no means a Linux expert and lives at the other end of the world) is using an Archlinux system that has its date and time completely wrong - the year is 2019. Is using timedatectl set-time a safe way to fix this ? In other words, would a system time jump cause proble