Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-12 Thread Paul Scott
On 5/12/25 7:40 PM, Max Nikulin wrote: On 12/05/2025 02:00, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2025 10:02:38 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: I have tried booting with the last several kernels that I have installed doesn't seem to work. I also can't find iwconfig. iwconfig comes in the package w

Re: Dell wifi switch

2025-05-12 Thread xuser
I just want it to work On Mon, 12 May 2025, Greg wrote: Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 20:32:56 +0200 From: Greg To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Dell wifi switch Resent-Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 18:33:22 + (UTC) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org On 5/12/25 19:31, xuser wrote:

Re: enable wifi on sid

2025-05-12 Thread Max Nikulin
On 12/05/2025 02:00, Charles Curley wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2025 10:02:38 -0700 Paul Scott wrote: I have tried booting with the last several kernels that I have installed doesn't seem to work. I also can't find iwconfig. iwconfig comes in the package wireless-tools. You may need to (re)instal

Re: Dell wifi switch

2025-05-12 Thread Greg
On 5/12/25 19:31, xuser wrote: The wifi switch on my dell laptop is not working after installing debian. Are you looking for help or just want to let everyone know that you are disappointed?

Re: Installation cannot find network

2025-05-12 Thread Eben King
On 5/12/25 04:03, Anssi Saari wrote: Arbol One writes: I'd like to install Debian 12 in a GMKtec NucBox M3 PLUS, but the installation cannot find the network connection. Is this box compatible with Linux? anyone! Network hardware is sometimes newer than what Debian has support for in th

Dell wifi switch

2025-05-12 Thread xuser
The wifi switch on my dell laptop is not working after installing debian. xu...@sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-11, Eike Lantzsch wrote: > On Saturday, May 10, 2025 2:44:09 PM -03 Thomas Dineen wrote: > [snip] >> >> This thread is a waist of time! >> > Thank you very much! I added this to my collection of sayings. It's a pretty hip saying. > Cheers > Eike KY4PZ / ZP5CGE > > >

Re: Feature request: Make deb822 default and deprecate old-style sources.list

2025-05-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 09:34:44PM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: I read some advice recently that suggested taking the time some thing has existed to be a "half-life" for deprecation. So, if the pre-deb822 format has existed for 27 years and we deprecated it now, we can expect 50% of users will ha

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 10:48:55AM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote: For a futile attempt at correcting topic drift, I commented about laptops and their displays. So how many laptops do you have with a 16:10 aspect display and from which decade are they from? I know of exactly one model from this decade

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 06:29:58AM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 03:55:30PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: This is simple: if you have a 7 year old machine, find someone throwing out a 4 year old machine, take it, and throw out the 7 year old machine instead. Refusing to ta

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Greg
On 2025-05-12, David Christensen wrote: > On 5/11/25 12:55, Michael Stone wrote: >> The issue isn't finding the availability of potentially >> useful machines that get trashed, the issue is that there isn't an >> efficient market for getting those machines to people who can use them. > > > In ye

Re: Installation cannot find network

2025-05-12 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 3:51 AM Arbol One wrote: > I'd like to install Debian 12 in a GMKtec NucBox M3 PLUS, but the > installation cannot find the network connection. > Is this box compatible with Linux? anyone! > It might be that your hardware is newer than what Bookworm supports. You may wa

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Timothy M Butterworth
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2025 at 03:55:30PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > [...] > > > > The embedded cost in older machines has amortised over a longer > > > period. > > > > What are you even talking about? > > Longer life: you divvy up the manufacturing (and sh

Re: Installation cannot find network

2025-05-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Arbol One writes: > I'd like to install Debian 12 in a GMKtec NucBox M3 PLUS, but the > installation cannot find the network connection. > Is this box compatible with Linux? anyone! Network hardware is sometimes newer than what Debian has support for in the installer. I had this issue a few y

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-12 Thread Anssi Saari
Eben King writes: > On 5/11/25 08:46, Anssi Saari wrote: >> Stefan Monnier writes: >> It does seem like the slightly longer 16:10 screens are making a >> comeback, at least in the Thinkpad T16. > > Two of my monitors have that aspect ratio. Well, why not, let's ramble on about loosely related