Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-30 Thread john doe
On 3/31/2021 4:21 AM, Dan Norton wrote: After the 10.9 upgrade, name resolution is not working for me. Does anyone else see this? My desktop is a wifi server for laptop access using windows. That works OK but the server, attached by ethernet to the DSL modem does not get names resolved since

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Brian writes: > Ten minutes after writing that I recollected I possess a non-working > router. It is the first I bought (> 100 GBP) and has not yet beem > re-cycled. > > My network also hasn't any spare LAN ports to connect to and some of > the devices have beem wireless-enabled to communicate wi

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-30 Thread David Christensen
On 3/30/21 7:21 PM, Dan Norton wrote: After the 10.9 upgrade, name resolution is not working for me. Does anyone else see this? My desktop is a wifi server for laptop access using windows. That works OK but the server, attached by ethernet to the DSL modem does not get names resolved since th

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-30 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 31.03.2021 07:21, Dan Norton wrote: After the 10.9 upgrade, name resolution is not working for me. Does anyone else see this? My desktop is a wifi server for laptop access using windows. That works OK but the server, attached by ethernet to the DSL modem does not get names resolved since t

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-30 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 31.03.2021 07:24, Charlie Gibbs wrote: If anyone has gotten one of these newfangled machines to work as a slave, rather than a master, please share your secrets. aTdHvAaNnKcSe... Have you tried to install a sane backend driver coming as a .deb package from Brother website? https://support

Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-03-30 Thread Dan Norton
After the 10.9 upgrade, name resolution is not working for me. Does anyone else see this? My desktop is a wifi server for laptop access using windows. That works OK but the server, attached by ethernet to the DSL modem does not get names resolved since the upgrade. The resolvconf program is not

xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-30 Thread Charlie Gibbs
I just got a Brother ADS-2700W sheet-fed scanner and am trying to access it from xsane. I've done a lot of flatbed scanning, first with an HP 3970, and lately with an Epson WF-2650 all-in-one, but I have a lot of old manuals I want to scan and upload to Bitsavers, and a sheet feeder will speed th

Re: DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-30 Thread Nicholas Geovanis
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 5:33 PM Moritz Kempe wrote: > Hello, > > since i upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 (with regular Debian 10, not > Raspberry PI OS) to the latest buster version, i am experiencing > problems with dns, which i cannot replicate with any of my other devices > (Debian Stretch amd64 wo

DNS problems on Raspberry Pi 400 (Debian 10.9)

2021-03-30 Thread Moritz Kempe
Hello, since i upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 (with regular Debian 10, not Raspberry PI OS) to the latest buster version, i am experiencing problems with dns, which i cannot replicate with any of my other devices (Debian Stretch amd64 workstation, Debian Buster amd64 server, Raspberry Pi 3b arm

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

2021-03-30 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:20:11 +0300 George Shuklin wrote: > My point was that 'sh' approach (including > bash and dash) is really, really bad. Bash as a programming language > is super tricky, with lots of landmines and almost no validation > whatsoever for errors (there is a bit, but way less th

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 16:51:05 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > On 2021-03-24 15:34, Richard Owlett wrote: > > This is essentially a reading list request. > > I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". > > I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation >

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 19:29:49 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 11:19:48 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > [...] > > > What well meaning members of this list have not picked up on is that I am > > very literal minded and careful in phrasing my questions. I've said > > somewhere in this

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Brian
On Tue 30 Mar 2021 at 11:19:48 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: [...] > What well meaning members of this list have not picked up on is that I am > very literal minded and careful in phrasing my questions. I've said > somewhere in this thread that my "universe of discourse" is explicitly > limited to

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:28:07AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 03/30/2021 10:28 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > Richard, > > > > So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected > > to the Internet. > > > > Did you actually manage to install the firmware to make

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-30 17:28, IL Ka wrote: You might need a x-over RJ45 cable to connect the 2 together. There is a technology called "Auto MDI-X". With it NIC can detect cable type hence it can support both cross-cord and patch-cord. This technology is optional for 10Mb and 100Mb (although widely i

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread IL Ka
> > > You might need a x-over RJ45 cable to connect the 2 together. > There is a technology called "Auto MDI-X". With it NIC can detect cable type hence it can support both cross-cord and patch-cord. This technology is optional for 10Mb and 100Mb (although widely implemented in 100). For 1000Mb cr

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/30/2021 10:28 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: Richard, So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected to the Internet. Did you actually manage to install the firmware to make the WiFi cards work? Yes ;> One was old enough that the installer had the correct dri

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-30 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 11:18:11AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > I'm sure this can be made in software, by looking at the mic > > input. Most probably even in user space. > > Now to find someone with enough time in her/his hands and who > > can be convinced into trying :-) > > What I find puzzl

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Richard Owlett
On 03/30/2021 09:11 AM, David Wright wrote: On Thu 25 Mar 2021 at 17:02:36 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: You still have he magic Mifi hotspot from T-Mobile that you were connecting to via USB. That may well have DHCP and DNS functionality built in - assuming you have wifi drivers installed

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread mick crane
On 2021-03-24 15:34, Richard Owlett wrote: This is essentially a reading list request. I have never administered a LAN and believe in "learning by doing". I have two laptops with clean installs of Buster. During installation server software was installed on *ONE* of them. Communication will be vi

Re: Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
Richard, So: You have two laptops. Both installed from the first DVD. Never connected to the Internet. Did you actually manage to install the firmware to make the WiFi cards work? Outwith that firmware, it is very unlikely that anything will work. [And this goes back to one of the previous email

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm sure this can be made in software, by looking at the mic > input. Most probably even in user space. > Now to find someone with enough time in her/his hands and who > can be convinced into trying :-) What I find puzzling here is that this is a 100% standard feature on pretty much all Android

A script for downloading browser files, Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Sat 13 Mar 2021 at 09:26:32 (+0530), Susmita/Rajib wrote: > On 13/03/2021, David Wright wrote: > > ... ... [snipped] ... ... > > [snipped] ... ... > > I (≠ OP) don't use pulseaudio as a matter of course. It's meant to > > give benefits

Re: Possible?! A Debian public repository for all complex code lines with examples and scripts?

2021-03-30 Thread George Shuklin
On 26/03/2021 16:59, Dan Ritter wrote: George Shuklin wrote: But it's all software. Debian can't change sh to be 'not sh'. And any changes in a build stack are touching vast amount of software with extremely complex use-cases, so it's almost impossible to 'replace'. You can 'add' a new one, but

Re: Cannot see update to recent linux kernel 5.10.19-1~bpo10+1 (from 5.10.13-1~bpo10+1)

2021-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Sun 28 Mar 2021 at 19:46:07 (+0200), l0f...@tuta.io wrote: > > By the way, what is image-5.10.0-0.bpo.4* serie for?Is it only related to > "Change ABI number to 0.bpo.4"? Do I need that? I guess you have to read the changes file to find that out. https://lists.debian.org/debian-backports-chan

Re: Creating my first LAN

2021-03-30 Thread David Wright
On Thu 25 Mar 2021 at 17:02:36 (+), Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > You still have he magic Mifi hotspot from T-Mobile that you were connecting > to via USB. That may well have DHCP and DNS functionality built in - assuming > you have wifi drivers installed on your two machines, it may well "just

Re: MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, ellanios82 wrote: > : perhaps if i wait a day or 2 , i might get lucky  :) On the risk to be proven wrong by more experienced bystanders, i assume that you need to find a mirror with the new package, update your package list from that mirror, and use it for upgrading. (My theory is that your

Re: MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread ellanios82
On 3/30/21 1:15 PM, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Hi, E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-docs/mx-doc s_20200817mx19+1_all.deb This server only has the predecessor package mx-docs_20200817mx19_all.deb It seems that mx-docs_20200817mx19+1_all.deb already

Re: MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, > E: Failed to fetch > http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/mx/mx/repo/pool/main/m/mx-docs/mx-doc > s_20200817mx19+1_all.deb This server only has the predecessor package mx-docs_20200817mx19_all.deb It seems that mx-docs_20200817mx19+1_all.deb already has a successor named mx-docs_20200817

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-30 Thread David
On Tue, 30 Mar 2021 at 19:35, wrote: > Anyway. It is a classical "hack" which means taking something you > have and extending it in some unexpected and usually very creative > way. Enjoyable, most of the time extremely useful, in a nutshell: > the engineers core value :-) > But I stand by "ugly"

Re: MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread ellanios82
On 3/30/21 11:32 AM, john doe wrote: On 3/30/2021 10:27 AM, ellanios82 wrote: Hello List ,   - since 3 or 4 days, i have not been able to   "apt upgrade" , and --fix-missing does not solve problem   this is what am seeing : "Need to get 50.7 MB/51.0 MB of archives. After this operation

Re: MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread ellanios82
On 3/30/21 11:32 AM, john doe wrote: On 3/30/2021 10:27 AM, ellanios82 wrote: Hello List ,   - since 3 or 4 days, i have not been able to   "apt upgrade" , and --fix-missing does not solve problem   this is what am seeing : "Need to get 50.7 MB/51.0 MB of archives. After this operation

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-30 Thread tomas
On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 09:58:19PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > It's entirely possible that the Librem doesn't have a sound chip > > that translates impedance changes to button clicks. You could > > ask the hardware folks, right? > > So, that's what I did: > > https://forums.puri.sm/t/hea

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-30 Thread tomas
On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 10:40:45AM +1100, David wrote: > On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 at 06:29, wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 03:05:58PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > > > > >> My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I > > > > >> can > > > > >> con

Re: MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread john doe
On 3/30/2021 10:27 AM, ellanios82 wrote: Hello List ,  - since 3 or 4 days, i have not been able to  "apt upgrade" , and --fix-missing does not solve problem  this is what am seeing : "Need to get 50.7 MB/51.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 3,768 kB disk space will be freed. D

MX patito feo 19.3 : trying to apt upgrade

2021-03-30 Thread ellanios82
Hello List ,  - since 3 or 4 days, i have not been able to  "apt upgrade" , and --fix-missing does not solve problem  this is what am seeing : "Need to get 50.7 MB/51.0 MB of archives. After this operation, 3,768 kB disk space will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Ign:1 http://ft