Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 ian 21, 17:44:28, Jerry Mellon wrote: > Hi, > The Asus that I have is G75V series. It has 2 hdd bays onboard. The > 500mv is the drive that is current installed and Debian 10.7 is > installed. I have purchased another 2T Segate drive that will go into > the empty bay. > > I don't want to

Re: problem with wifi

2021-01-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-17 12:15, Long Wind wrote: wifi is ok with cell phone, it isn't with buster allow-hotplug wlx0022c0001a59 iface wlx0022c0001a59 inet dhcp wireless-essid JHotel buster can connect to wifi with above but after some time, connection is lost i have to run ifdown/ifup again any idea? Tha

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On 18/1/21 10:09 am, Stefan Monnier wrote: No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it. Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`.

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-17 Thread David Christensen
On 2021-01-16 10:28, Dan Hitt wrote: Regarding Andrei's suggestion of using nm-connection-editor, ... GUI tools can be nice when you have an idea of what they are doing "under the hood". With networking, multiple hoods are involved and many are inaccessible (notably your ISP and the Intern

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 ian 21, 20:12:38, Brian wrote: > On Sat 16 Jan 2021 at 20:57:19 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Steven Mainor wrote: > > > My main concern for the laptop in question is security. So from a > > > security standpoint, what is the difference be

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Du, 17 ian 21, 12:43:26, Darac Marjal wrote: > > In theory, I imagine it would be possible to make some sort of hook for > apt here. That is, in the same way that apt-listbugs and apt-listchanges > fire off before apt runs and as "Are you still sure you want to install > these packages?", it mi

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 16 ian 21, 17:04:54, The Wanderer wrote: > > Nothing immediate for the former, but for the latter, you may want to > look at the 'vrms' package. > > It stands for 'virtual Richard M. Stallman', in honor of RMS' role as > the orienting compass of the Free Software movement (although its > c

What is the command to access the temp sensors in a rpi4?

2021-01-17 Thread Gene Heskett
Greetings all; ISTR there is a "vcg*" sort of thing to read that stuff, but have lost it in the fog of time. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect fo

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Stefan Monnier wrote: > > No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as > > /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it. > > Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the > name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`. > Yes, or strang

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as > /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it. Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`. Stefan

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Dan Ritter
Jerry Mellon wrote: > Hi, > The Asus that I have is G75V series. It has 2 hdd bays onboard. The > 500mv is the drive that is current installed and Debian 10.7 is > installed. I have purchased another 2T Segate drive that will go into > the empty bay. > > I don't want to do anything fancy, just in

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Jerry Mellon
Hi, The Asus that I have is G75V series. It has 2 hdd bays onboard. The 500mv is the drive that is current installed and Debian 10.7 is installed. I have purchased another 2T Segate drive that will go into the empty bay. I don't want to do anything fancy, just install and update fstat. The questio

Re: Some questions around needrestart utility

2021-01-17 Thread l0f4r0
17 janv. 2021 à 21:50 de didier.gau...@gmail.com: > from https://github.com/liske/needrestart-session : > "needrestart checks which processes need to be restarted after library > upgrades. needrestart-session implements a notification of user sessions > about their obsolete processes after syst

Re: Some questions around needrestart utility

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/01/2021 à 21:37, l0f...@tuta.io a écrit : [...] I didn't pay attention there is a needrestart-session! Can you tell me please how it could be useful to me if I have already needrestart? Indeed, needrestart already lists me the "User sessions running outdated binaries"... What's more to e

Re: Some questions around needrestart utility

2021-01-17 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, 17 janv. 2021 à 19:24 de didier.gau...@gmail.com: > I installed needrestart (and needrestart-session too) because it is suggested > by unattended-upgrades (installed and running on my system, with > apt-listbugs), so when something has been upgraded and needs to be restarted, > needrestart

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Marc Auslander
Jerry Mellon writes: >Hello, >New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I >have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory >and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. > >My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements please) >way to ad

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 17.01.2021 23:52, Jerry Mellon wrote: Hello, New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements plea

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Jan 2021 at 20:57:19 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 01:19:21PM -0500, Steven Mainor wrote: > > My main concern for the laptop in question is security. So from a > > security standpoint, what is the difference between using a wifi > > card with built in closed so

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Charles Curley
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 13:52:06 -0500 Jerry Mellon wrote: > I > have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory > and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. > > My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements please) > way to add a second hard drive with 2T of sp

Re: Some questions around needrestart utility

2021-01-17 Thread Sven Hartge
l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > Can someone explain me how needrestart (in interactive advanced mode) > preselects services to be restarted please? I mean when I launch it, > only some services are preselected while others are not.So according > to what criteria? Does it preselect those whose reboot has

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Brian
On Sat 16 Jan 2021 at 21:12:54 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: [...] > https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware is the page giving full details. That is quite a smart page, explaining the need for firmware during a Debian installation succinctly. It should have some prominance for users. The -devel th

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Joe
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:59:18 + Alain D D Williams wrote: > On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:52:06PM -0500, Jerry Mellon wrote: > > Hello, > > New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I > > have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of > > memory and intel

Re: Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Alain D D Williams
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 01:52:06PM -0500, Jerry Mellon wrote: > Hello, > New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I > have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory > and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. > > My question is what is the best(use

Add a hard drive to existing system??

2021-01-17 Thread Jerry Mellon
Hello, New to Debian, but have gotten Debian 10.7 loaded on to my system. I have an ASUS gaming laptop(dont use it for gaming) with 12gb of memory and intel corei7 and a 500gb hard drive. My question is what is the best(use dummy for linus statements please) way to add a second hard drive with 2T

Re: Some questions around needrestart utility

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
Hello, basically it seems to detect which service needs to be restarted after an upgrade I installed needrestart (and needrestart-session too) because it is suggested by unattended-upgrades (installed and running on my system, with apt-listbugs), so when something has been upgraded and needs

Some questions around needrestart utility

2021-01-17 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, Can someone explain me how needrestart (in interactive advanced mode) preselects services to be restarted please? I mean when I launch it, only some services are preselected while others are not.So according to what criteria? Does it preselect those whose reboot has less impact on the mac

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread Peter Ehlert
On 1/17/21 6:57 AM, Celejar wrote: On 17 Jan 2021 10:41:07 GMT Curt wrote: On 2021-01-16, Dale Amon wrote: I simply want to drag my photos from the phone over a USB mount and store them on my laptop. If both your phone and your laptop are on the same LAN: https://snapdrop.net/ https://

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread Celejar
On 17 Jan 2021 10:41:07 GMT Curt wrote: > On 2021-01-16, Dale Amon wrote: > > > > I simply want to drag my photos from the phone over a USB mount > > and store them on my laptop. > > > > If both your phone and your laptop are on the same LAN: > > https://snapdrop.net/ > > https://github.com/R

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-17 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 09:25:31 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: ... > Look for a router supported by OpenWrt. They are typically more > expensive, but could very well be worth the investment in the long run, > especially if it would work also with your older boxes. You might be surprised at how affo

Re: Cookies and so-called Privacy Policy [was: Debian and Android]

2021-01-17 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 02:32:12PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > One of the bigger hosting providers here in Germany [...] > Oh, you noticed this too I sure did :) > It started may be 1-2 months ago. This is why I > discussed this with my peers in the EU commission

Re: Cookies and so-called Privacy Policy [was: Debian and Android]

2021-01-17 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > One of the bigger hosting providers here in Germany, for its admin > interface, has one of those cookies thingy: either you say "accept all" > (that's the bright green button) or you say "edit preferences" (the light > grey button which nearly fades into the background).

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread Darac Marjal
On 17/01/2021 05:03, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Nothing immediate for the former, but for the latter, you may want to >> look at the 'vrms' package. > Yes, I use that as well. But that's an "opt-in", and it's rather crude > (and operates after the fact). I think Debian would benefit from having >

Re: Disk errors ...

2021-01-17 Thread Dominique Dumont
On jeudi 14 janvier 2021 00:14:16 CET Michael Stone wrote: > A more likely source of problems is the fact that the SATA connector is > actually spec'd for a really low number of cycles. I also had trouble on an Olimex card. I got error when the cable is not coming straight in the connector. Whe

Re: Cookies and so-called Privacy Policy [was: Debian and Android]

2021-01-17 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 12:13:32PM +0100, deloptes wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > A friend of mine once suggested to return /dev/random to a site's > > cookie request. I'm tempted to try that :-) > > > > sounds funny indeed ...and fuzzy (this would be a cookie parser fuzzer :) > I actu

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread Anssi Saari
Dale Amon writes: > I simply want to drag my photos from the phone over a USB mount > and store them on my laptop. Well, if it's just photos then you could try using PTP instead of MTP. Should be under USB Preferences on the phone and I think Gnome's file manager should support it out of the box

Re: Cookies and so-called Privacy Policy [was: Debian and Android]

2021-01-17 Thread deloptes
to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > A friend of mine once suggested to return /dev/random to a site's > cookie request. I'm tempted to try that :-) > sounds funny indeed > This is one good effect of EU's GDPR: the data-sucking machines are > running around like beheaded chicken: fun to watch ;-D > I ac

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread Curt
On 2021-01-16, Dale Amon wrote: > > I simply want to drag my photos from the phone over a USB mount > and store them on my laptop. > If both your phone and your laptop are on the same LAN: https://snapdrop.net/ https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop/blob/master/docs/faq.md Convenient and easy

Cookies and so-called Privacy Policy [was: Debian and Android]

2021-01-17 Thread tomas
On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 10:30:13AM +0100, deloptes wrote: [...] > sorry but this is site is crap > > > Consent Denied > > You have not agreed to WonderHowTo, Gaget Hacks, & Next Reality's use of > cookies, Terms of Use Agreement, and/or Privacy Policy [...] Pfft. A friend of mine once sugges

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 17/01/2021 à 10:30, deloptes a écrit : didier gaumet wrote: [...] https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/make-usb-connection-your-android-phone-default-file-transfer-mode-0234540/ sorry but this is site is crap [...] OK, my bad, sorry then let's enounce the steps on my Android phone (tra

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread deloptes
didier gaumet wrote: > It is probably related to your Android settings and independant of your > PC OS (Debian): > > https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/make-usb-connection-your-android-phone-default-file-transfer-mode-0234540/ sorry but this is site is crap Consent Denied You have not agr

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread l0f4r0
Hi, I don't know for your exact error message but I can say personally that I have no real issue anymore since I switched to Android File Transfer For Linux... https://github.com/whoozle/android-file-transfer-linux You might give it a try. NB: I'm on Buster. HTH Best regards, l0f4r0

Re: sharing a network connection from debian to non-debian

2021-01-17 Thread john doe
On 1/17/2021 8:25 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 16 ian 21, 10:28:43, Dan Hitt wrote: I made sure that the 'Ethernet' tab had the mac addr of the right device --- it's a usb/ethernet cable, and has a long name, so it would be hard to confuse it with enp2s0 (the connection to the 'internet-mod

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread tomas
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 08:40:53PM -0500, Celejar wrote: [...] > I think you're conflating two senses of wireless 'firmware' - the kind > that runs on the wireless chipset itself (i.e., the stuff that Debian > ships in its free and non-free 'firmware' packages), and the kind that > runs on the sy

Re: Debian and Android

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
It is probably related to your Android settings and independant of your PC OS (Debian): https://android.gadgethacks.com/how-to/make-usb-connection-your-android-phone-default-file-transfer-mode-0234540/

Re: Open source Atheros wifi? (ath10k)

2021-01-17 Thread didier gaumet
Le 16/01/2021 à 22:55, Stefan Monnier a écrit : [...] I often enable `non-free` because I need it for one package or another (GFDL docs for example), but I strongly dislike the fact that as soon as it's enabled, all its packages become "silently" installable. [...] On this particular point, per