My USB Wifi adapter stopped working since I updated my Kernel to the
latest security update.
Adapter brand name: Edimax 7811un
Driver as shown by lshw: rtl8192cu driverversion=3.2.0-4-amd64
Chipset: RTL8188CUS according to:
http://www.cianmcgovern.com/getting-the-edimax-ew-7811un-working-on-li
Also, when Jessie becomes stable, will an "apt-get update && apt-get
dist-upgrade" give me the same stable version, regardless of which base
system I installed? (Daily, Weekly,Beta)
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On 10/27/2014 07:53 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:> I'd just try the most
current daily build. I expect it to work
> for most cases.
On 10/27/2014 07:56 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> If you want to try it out, the latest named
> beta release is probably the next best.
Those are two conflicting opinions,
On 10/27/2014 07:58 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:53 PM, Jochen Spieker wrote:
>> > | If you read only one document before installing, read our Installation
>> > | Howto, a quick walkthrough of the installation process.
>> > http://d-i.debian.org/manual/en.i386/apa.html
>> >
I am interesting in using Jessie.
The Debian page at https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
presents me with 4 ISO's: Beta 1, Beta 2, Weekly, Daily.
When it comes to stability, which one is the best?
Also, a sub question: the following line confuses me: "Installing with
the Debian-Instal
On 10/11/2014 01:20 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> If you want to go forward with this I would suggest you just do it. If
> some Debian Developer finds your idea interesting you could even get a
> domain like imap.debian.net.
Yes, I think that's the way to go. People are far more likely to adopt a
On 10/10/2014 10:26 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> * On 2014 10 Oct 14:19 -0500, softwatt wrote:
>> > My "thanks" was not threaded correctly. Sorry.
> It was threaded correctly by Mutt for me. Check the threading in the
> list archive. Might be an issue with your MUA.
My "thanks" was not threaded correctly. Sorry.
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On 10/10/2014 10:10 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>>> Miles Fidelman wrote:
>>>>> Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/10/2014 10:01 AM, softwatt wrote:
>>&g
On 10/10/2014 11:30 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> Personally, I think the 'stack exchange' model is the best one out there at
> the
> moment.
I have two problems with that model.
- I don't like reward systems, I prefer minimalistic discussion
platforms without the fancy stuff
- Threaded dis
On 10/10/2014 08:04 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> - as noted - stuff comes to you
That's true in Usenet as well.
The remaining points are valid for Usenet. Note however that none of
them are valid for my proposal.
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On 10/10/2014 06:59 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> I'm on at least 25 mailing lists. If I had to go out to 25 different
> places to get my information, I'd never get anything done. With mailing
> lists, posts come to me: I don't need to go searching hither and yon
> for them.
Why are you guys treatin
On 10/10/2014 05:39 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> You don't need to use a paid server. There are plenty of free ones
> available. Personally, I use eternal-september.com. It's been pretty
> solid for me and contains all of the newsgroups I want. No binary
> newsgroups, but I can life with that.
T
On 10/10/2014 06:24 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>
> Gatewaying debian-user to an nntp newsgroup hosted at debian.org might
> be a nice-to-have.
Mozilla does this with their mailing lists. They have a readonly,
"lonely" Usenet server at news.mozilla.org.
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There's a sub-question here: How does this proposal compare to Usenet?
However, both Usenet and this proposal are superior to mailing lists in
all aspects. Feel free to correct me here. Do mailing lists have any
advantages in comparison to Usenet/this proposal?
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On 10/10/2014 05:58 PM, softwatt wrote:
> On 10/10/2014 05:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
>> > You missed the biggest 2 advantages of mailing lists:
> You missed my point entirely.
> Those two advantages are reserved in my proposal.
>
I apologize. You only added some advantages
On 10/10/2014 05:41 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> You missed the biggest 2 advantages of mailing lists:
You missed my point entirely.
Those two advantages are reserved in my proposal.
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On 10/10/2014 02:27 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
> I also read this
> mail list via NNTP (easier to keep track of threads)
This is perfect for me. But information on the net is scarce and I don't
know where to begin. I know that I can access linux.debian.* and read
stuff, but that would require a -oft
On 10/09/2014 11:40 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> Didn't you just describe Usenet?
Hmm, I am not sure I have.
I have no experience with Usenet, but after some searching, I think that
Usenet is a lot more complex than this. Feel free to correct me if i'm
wrong though.
The main difference I found (quo
I have been contemplating the merits of mailing lists and comparing them
with those of forums, thinking about whether there exists an alternative
which provides the advantages of both. And then I came out with
something new which does exactly that.
Before I continue, allow me to quickly and partia
On 09/28/2014 04:04 PM, Alexis wrote:
> softwatt writes:
>
>> I meant an SSH client.
>> I did not know that some non-root apps allow that. Thanks.
>>
>> However, rooting gives you a fully fledged GNU/Linux terminal, which
>> has SSH, Rsync, Busybox, e
On 09/28/2014 03:03 PM, Erwan David wrote:
> Le 28/09/2014 14:00, softwatt a écrit :
>> > This may or may not be relevant: Rooting android makes it possible to
>> > use it as an SSH *client*.
>> >
> You mean server ? Because you have ssh clients for non rooted andr
This may or may not be relevant: Rooting android makes it possible to
use it as an SSH *client*.
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On 09/28/2014 03:31 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
>> Great Minds! The only thing the user sees is black dots. :) Ric
> You don't even get to see those AFAIR.
Wrong. One does see black dots, see attachment.
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On 09/28/2014 01:46 AM, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote:
>> On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote:
>>> I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in
>>> the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing
I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in
the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing
ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do
it multiple times if you have multiple languages.
If that is not your issue, I am clueless.
On 09/26/2014 03:24 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> It sounds to me like a good use case for retroshare or owncloud.
> The last one is available in debian as package and has a good community
> as far as i know.
Yes, those do the job. But if only some simple file sharing is needed,
both are *overkil
Checkout HFS + Wine.
http://www.rejetto.com/hfs/
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On 09/20/2014 03:18 PM, Martin Read wrote:
> On 20/09/14 13:01, softwatt wrote:
>> So, to sum it up: In my particular situation where I have a separate
>> partition for /home/ , the best "upgrade" would be:
>>
>> 1. Installing a brand new Debian but leaving
On 09/20/2014 02:02 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 20 sep 14, 09:58:22, softwatt wrote:
>> > Why is quoting always needed?
>
> Other readers might be missing previous messages (network delays,
> deleted it, etc.), but want to jump in now. Without any context they
>
So, to sum it up: In my particular situation where I have a separate
partition for /home/ , the best "upgrade" would be:
1. Installing a brand new Debian but leaving /home/ intact.
2. Deleting all the config stuff with `rm -rf /home//.[a-z0-9]*`
3. Done.
Have I missed anything?
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Thanks! But will they be recreated after the installation?
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Can't I just do an rm -f -r /home//.* to get rid of hidden
config? Will they be recreated?
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Why is quoting always needed?
Mail clients know which mail is a reply to which.
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I do not intend to upgrade now. I ask in order to learn. (:
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Perfect. Thanks :)
Assume this fails. What's the worst case scenario? I don't mind a broken
system, I *do* mind losing my /home/ folder.
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I knew that one day I'd have to upgrade so I put my home folder on a
different partition.
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Thanks for explaining. Debian guys teach me something new every day.
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But that is not risk-free. What if the thing that's overwriting the file
on startup dislikes not being able to write to the file and crashes?
By the way, my solution would fail if the overwriting is happening after
startup.
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I knew*
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Thanks you.
When I first installed Wheezy, I've knew this day would come, and since
my home directory is basically the only thing I need, I put my home
directory in one partition and the rest of the system in another.
Can Jessie keep my home partition intact and just overwrite the other
partition
I have no idea how to solve the problem itself, someone else might help
you there.
But here's a way to bypass the problem by telling Debian to overwrite
the file on each startup. It might work.
Copy the file you want to preserve to somewhere else.
In this example I've copied etc/network/interface
Also, does a clean install offer any advantage over an upgrade? It's
really a pain and I prefer to avoid it, but if there are good reasons
I'll do it.
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On 09/18/2014 11:54 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
> If you didn't do a dist-upgrade since Jessie came out, you could be
> running the older wheezy packages as part of your system. Not recommended.
What about the claim that it's best to do `apt-get upgrade` first,
followed by `apt-get dist-upgrade`?
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On 09/18/2014 08:50 PM, Sven Hartge wrote:
> On some systems it has been necessary (during the Squeeze to Wheezy
> upgrade) to first use only "apt-get upgrade" after upgrading apt and
> dpkg and then issuing the full dist-upgrade as final step to get a
> smoother upgrade. This where mostly systems
Hello. How does one upgrade the distro? I have searched the web but I am
getting some contradictions, and I am hesitant to mess things up.
All websites suggest updating the /etc/apt/sources.list file. This makes
a lot of sense. However, the consensus ends here. Beyond that, I have no
idea what's c
That's also understandable, hardware is a pain in the neck. :)
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On 09/17/2014 07:43 PM, Brian wrote:
> Resolve the situation of not having any functional WiFi? Purchase a USB
> device which does work with Debian. Normal working can then be easily
> achieved.
I already do that. But some things have the so-called "hacking value". I
want to fix this for the sake
On 09/17/2014 07:09 PM, B wrote:
> By default, NM doesn't manage any I/F that is cited
> into /etc/network/interfaces; so you must either comment lines
> in this file or enable the management of these I/F into NM
> conf file.
>
Thanks! It's working surprisingly well.
I will test it before con
I recently bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T440P. The wireless driver did work
out of the box. It was not even recognized by the system. A quick search
revealed I am not the only one with the issue. I later learned that the
Wireless adapter requires a driver called RTL8192EE, which is not
supported by Lin
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