Re: USB keyboard unreliable since dist-upgrade on 1st of June

2015-07-05 Thread Alef Farah
On 2015-06-28 19:00, Don Armstrong wrote: Contentless maligning of systemd and/or other parts of Debian are not on topic on Debian mailing lists, and certainly not on topic on -user. Please stop. On the other hand, if there are bugs, file them with details, so they can be fixed, like this very

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-06 Thread Alef Farah
Turns out it was a silly configuration issue. Both wicd and network-manager seem to use wlan0 as the default interface, and for some reason the wireless interface was eth1, switching to it solved the issue. On top of that the Fn+F5 key really isn't working, which just made things more confusing. T

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-05 Thread Alef Farah
Everything regarding networking and wireless is enabled on the BIOS. That "built in user's guide" seems to be for Windows only. The PDFs available for the X40 on another section of the website were also for Windows. Nevertheless I did the analogue steps for Linux - basically verifying if things ar

Re: Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-04 Thread Alef Farah
> Try: > tail -f -n 150 /var/log/syslog > > And then press the Fn+F5 keys... what shows in the log? Nothing is logged. Though Fn + other F keys (such as lowering screen brightness, which works) also don't trigger any log entry. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Help needed with wireless on a Thinkpad X40

2014-08-04 Thread Alef Farah
Hi. I recently installed Debian stable (wheezy 7.6) on a Thinkpad X40, with the following network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] The installer complained about the required non-free firmware being unavailable. First thing I did was install it, `firmware-ipw2x00`. I i