Re: x : keyboard not working

2017-10-09 Thread David Wright
On Mon 09 Oct 2017 at 20:23:18 (+0200), Mattia Oss wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 11:11:26PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > I avoid having to copy those files by appending my changes to > > /etc/console-setup/remap.inc and then running > > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration. > > But I'm not

Re: LTE router usage.

2017-10-09 Thread Dan Ritter
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 11:56:53AM -0700, pe...@easthope.ca wrote: > Hello, > > The large number of readers with extensive expertise > motivates me to post here. Apologies for being out of > scope. > > A friend uses a phone, connecting to a cell tower about 10 > km distant, as an access point

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-09 Thread Daniel Keast
On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 04:58:43PM +, Curt wrote: > On 2017-10-09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > > On Sunday, October 08, 2017 05:07:13 PM bw wrote: > >> On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Emanuel Berg wrote: > >> > Actually I don't care about wireless stuff, I always considered it > >> > unreliable and error-

LTE router usage.

2017-10-09 Thread peter
Hello, The large number of readers with extensive expertise motivates me to post here. Apologies for being out of scope. A friend uses a phone, connecting to a cell tower about 10 km distant, as an access point in Tanzania. According to this map, there are LTE routers which work in N. Americ

Re: x : keyboard not working

2017-10-09 Thread Mattia Oss
On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 11:11:26PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > I avoid having to copy those files by appending my changes to > /etc/console-setup/remap.inc and then running > dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration. > But I'm not making major changes like you, just some modifications > to make the

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-09 Thread John Hasler
rhkramer writes: > IIRC, the higher the frequency, the higher the energy in those > waves--thus the more likely to have an effect. I take it that you live in total darkness, then. But wait! Everything around you is emitting infrared, at *much* higher frequencies than any radio! Eek! -- John Ha

Re: Missing dedication file on mirrors (9.0.bn.txt)

2017-10-09 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Andre Rodier writes: > I am actually building custom CD images, with simple-cdd, but since > today, I am encountering errors that were not here Friday. > > Here the error: > > DEBUG downloading: > /tmp/seequestor/tmp/mirror/doc/dedication/dedication-9.0.bn.txt > > It seems this file is referen

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-09 Thread Curt
On 2017-10-09, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Sunday, October 08, 2017 05:07:13 PM bw wrote: >> On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Emanuel Berg wrote: >> > Actually I don't care about wireless stuff, I always considered it >> > unreliable and error-prone and it seems at least in this case I was >> > correct :) >

Re: New stretch kernel: lilo boot fails with "EBDA is big" message

2017-10-09 Thread deloptes
Bill Brelsford wrote: > Suggestions? grub

Re: Problem reserving enough space for Java object heap since stretch upgrade

2017-10-09 Thread Adam Kessel
On 7/1/2017 10:37 AM, David Wright wrote: I have been unable to execute Java with >=2048M memory allocation since upgrading to stretch. I've changed nothing in my configuration otherwise. I have plenty of RAM: # free totalusedfree shared buff/cache available

Re: Log files: location and description

2017-10-09 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 09:02:12AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 02:38:21PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > It's a shell feature: if you do "set -x" in a shell script, all the > > commands in the current shell get transcribed

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-09 Thread rhkramer
On Sunday, October 08, 2017 05:07:13 PM bw wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Emanuel Berg wrote: > > Actually I don't care about wireless stuff, I always considered it > > unreliable and error-prone and it seems at least in this case I was > > correct :) > > I know there is a legacy of this kind of thi

Re: Log files: location and description

2017-10-09 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 02:38:21PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > It's a shell feature: if you do "set -x" in a shell script, all the > commands in the current shell get transcribed (to stdout, I think). To stderr by default, but bash lets you set the BASH_XTRACEFD variable to send it elsewhere.

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-09 Thread Emanuel Berg
Brian wrote: > Two bites of the cherry. I actually did have a strange feeling I had been thru all this before - but I thought it was in a previous life... Anyway that time I don't think I ever got past the whole WiFi misconception, so it looks more hopeful this time, God willing. -- underground

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-09 Thread Jimmy Johnson
On 10/08/2017 11:12 PM, anxious...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, 9 October 2017 06:50:03 UTC+1, Jimmy Johnson wrote: Is there some kind of man page or something to explain what foo.deb is and or bar.deb is, because in my 20+ years googling or other ways I don't understand. If not I've been doi

Re: non-free firmware not found despite unofficial CD

2017-10-09 Thread Darac Marjal
On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 04:57:13PM -0400, bw wrote: On Sun, 8 Oct 2017, Jimmy Johnson wrote: On 10/08/2017 07:07 AM, Emanuel Berg wrote: > Jimmy Johnson wrote: > > > You will need to download the depends too and > > then cd to the directory that holds the files > > and #dpkg -i (the package n