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meet ups for people new to linux
by mitchell＠riseup.net 07 Nov '14

07 Nov '14

Hi there, Wondering about info in relation to meet ups/skill shares...? I am new to this operating system and am having a few problems pre and post upgrade. I live in Coburg Melbourne. Thanks, Anj Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS On 2014-10-14 12:00, luv-beginners-request(a)luv.asn.au wrote: > Send luv-beginners mailing list submissions to > luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-beginners > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > luv-beginners-request(a)luv.asn.au > > You can reach the person managing the list at > luv-beginners-owner(a)luv.asn.au > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of luv-beginners digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Black screen of born-dead (Jonathan Carnie) > 2. Re: Black screen of born-dead (Dan062) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:10:02 +1100 > From: Jonathan Carnie <jono.carnie(a)gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [luv-beginners] Black screen of born-dead > To: Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au> > Cc: "luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au" <luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au> > Message-ID: <0A06A5AD-57C4-44A7-8A7C-CCF1CE46F0FD(a)gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Can you try the Ctrl-Alt Fx key combo to check if any text consoles > started? > > Jc > >> On 14 Oct 2014, at 9:36 am, Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au> >> wrote: >> >>> On 14 October 2014 06:23, Wen Lin <vwenlin(a)gmail.com> wrote: >>> - When you said "?blank screens (x2)", what do you mean? >> >> It would be interesting to know if the computer is crashed at this >> stage, or the computer is running fine but not displaying anything. >> Unfortunately, can't think of an easy non-trivial way of working this >> out. >> >> One thing should be easy to tell however: Are the screens still >> powered up? Or do they automatically enter power saving mode, i.e. not >> receiving a signal? >> -- >> Brian May <brian(a)microcomaustralia.com.au> >> _______________________________________________ >> luv-beginners mailing list >> luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au >> http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-beginners >

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boot problems...Yay!
by Scott Junner 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

"This is all very good, the more mistakes I make the more I learn" he repeated to himself over and over again like wild eyed crazy man pacing up and down the lost halls of a forgotten mental asylum. For a while there I had something working. It was really cool, I was happy and free, my hair flowing behind me blown up by the magical breeze emanating from the cooling fan of my computer tower. I'd managed to dual boot Kali Linux along side Windows. The problem I had was that I was not able to get the two screens working as a single display. That is to say I was seeing double. I read the instructions on this page http://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-nvidia-drivers-on-kali-linux in an attempt to solve that problem. I knew it was a graphics card driver problem because when I went to the 'displays' section of the system settings the display showed as unknown and only showed one rather than two. After following the instructions to reboot I now get [...] Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...udevd[512]: specified group 'pcscd' unknown during the boot into Kali-Linux. And that's where the computer stays. Any ideas? Scott.

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Re: [luv-beginners] luv-beginners Digest, Vol 10, Issue 7
by Rohan Krishnadev 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hi, I'm pretty sure there's option for ISO download. I've been using a dual booted Dell XPS 15z with Kali and Windows 8.1 for quite some time now. With Regards, Rohan Krishnadev. (Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.) On 22-Oct-2014 12:00 pm, <luv-beginners-request(a)luv.asn.au> wrote: > Send luv-beginners mailing list submissions to > luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-beginners > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > luv-beginners-request(a)luv.asn.au > > You can reach the person managing the list at > luv-beginners-owner(a)luv.asn.au > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of luv-beginners digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Kali-Linux (Scott Junner) > 2. Re: [Bulk] Kali-Linux (dan062@yahoo) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:06:53 +1100 > From: Scott Junner <scott.junner(a)gmail.com> > Subject: [luv-beginners] Kali-Linux > To: luv-beginners(a)luv.asn.au > Message-ID: > < > CAFOXg3WpQ5pTAHy3EK4wZjtFqdkKY8nNSzR8vVemnApa9PmcJw(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > I still haven't managed to get Linux installed on a separate partition on > my desktop. I can get it to go through the process to a point, then it > freezes up and I boot back to windows to try and figure out why. > > For now that's another story. > > While I'm reading stuff, I've come across Kali -Linux, which is very > interesting and confusing. On the downloads page it only seems to have a > download for VMWare (amd64). Does this mean I have to run VMWare and then > install Kali-Linux as a virtual machine within...say...Windows, or is there > a way to install it as the Primary OS? Is that even a good idea? I don't > get it? What's this thing with VMWare? > > By extension, does this also mean that when PenTesting a virtual machine > like Metasploitable I end up with a Virtual Machine within a Virtual > Machine. This is getting a little like a nightmare strait out of > 'Inception'. Surely this can't be right. > > Cheers > Scott >

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Kali-Linux
by Scott Junner 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

I still haven't managed to get Linux installed on a separate partition on my desktop. I can get it to go through the process to a point, then it freezes up and I boot back to windows to try and figure out why. For now that's another story. While I'm reading stuff, I've come across Kali -Linux, which is very interesting and confusing. On the downloads page it only seems to have a download for VMWare (amd64). Does this mean I have to run VMWare and then install Kali-Linux as a virtual machine within...say...Windows, or is there a way to install it as the Primary OS? Is that even a good idea? I don't get it? What's this thing with VMWare? By extension, does this also mean that when PenTesting a virtual machine like Metasploitable I end up with a Virtual Machine within a Virtual Machine. This is getting a little like a nightmare strait out of 'Inception'. Surely this can't be right. Cheers Scott

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Black screen of born-dead
by Scott Junner 19 Oct '14

19 Oct '14

Hey luv. I've recently installed linux (openSUSE) on my laptop, Yay. It works, Yay. And now I'm trying to install linux on my brand spanking new, you beaut, ridgy didge desktop computer and I get nothing. I mean nothing. Zero feedback, except for nothing which in some philosophical circles is still considered something. But frankly philosophers are not going to help me here. What I did: 1. while in windows, download 'openSUSE-13.1-DVD-x86_64.iso' from the openSUSE website. 2. Insert blank DVD into DVD drive. 3. double left click on file which opens Nero dialogue box all ready to burn .iso file onto a DVD. 4. click the burn button, wait, done, success. 5. restart computer What happens same each time: 1. computer starts up 2. DVD drive engages 3. DVD drive winds up 4. nothing. 5. blank screens (x2) I've walked a way from the computer and left it some room to think about what it's doing. Time did not seem to improve the state of nothingness. Thanks for your help if you can. Scott.

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Cross-Compiling for Armv7
by Robert Brown 29 Apr '14

29 Apr '14

Hi Is anyone able to offer helpful tips or new directions with this: I am wanting to use a usb device with ID 0bda:2838 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL2838 DVB-T on a MK802II mini pc using the Allwinner A10 cpu. This device requires modules rtl2830.ko, rtl2832.ko and dvb_usb_rtl28xxu. The second of these modules does not seem to exist without patches on kernel 3.4 but on a raspberry pi I have been successful using kernel 3.10.25+. Here is the relevant lsmod from the pi: r820t 16279 1 rtl2832 8020 1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu 14333 1 dvb_usb_v2 14860 1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu rc_core 16313 3 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu,dvb_usb_v2 rtl2830 7378 1 dvb_usb_rtl28xxu dvb_core 92797 3 rtl2830,rtl2832,dvb_usb_v2 However when I try to compile a kernel for the A10 with 3.10.25+ I have no success. If I use the raspi sources for the cross-compile: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/archive/rpi-3.10.y.tar.gz I get errors that seem unresolvable: e.g.: undefined reference to `v6wbi_flush_kern_tlb_range' If I use the sunxi kernel source: https://github.com/linux-sunxi/linux-sunxi/tree/reference-3.10 the compile completes without error and I get modules and a uImage file but the device won't boot I am using this as a guide: http://jas-hacks.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/hackberry-a10-compiling-kernel-arm… I have tried using various .config files as a starting point including the pi and from the earlier 3.4 kernel without success Does anyone have any experience in this area? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks Rob

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Re: [luv-beginners] Replacement battery for an OLPC XO-1
by forster＠ozonline.com.au 14 May '13

14 May '13

> Hello all, > Not sure if I'm asking in the right place but does anyone have any > suggestions on where to buy a replacement battery for my XO-1? > I went to the website http://ilovemyxo.wordpress.com/ but it seems that > they only ship replacement batteries to US addresses. Thanks in advance > for any help/pointers. > Best wishes, > Aaron Hi You could try OLPC Australia in Sydney. If you have contributed to XO software development or intending to, that could help you, so mention it. If you have been active in XO software development, the OLPC team in the USA would help you (lists.laptop.org) Tony

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Replacement battery for an OLPC XO-1
by Aaron Cook 14 May '13

14 May '13

Hello all, Not sure if I'm asking in the right place but does anyone have any suggestions on where to buy a replacement battery for my XO-1? I went to the website http://ilovemyxo.wordpress.com/ but it seems that they only ship replacement batteries to US addresses. Thanks in advance for any help/pointers. Best wishes, Aaron

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what is happening
by Steve Roylance 16 Jan '13

16 Jan '13

hi I have 2 boxes side by side both have gigabit ethernet connected to a switch on the desk. The source is an i3-550 with /home mounted from an md0-array of 4*1TB drives in a raid5 config and the sink is an E2200 with /home on 1 disk and an nfs mount point issue command mv Fedora-18-x64.iso from source sink. The transfer starts at 350Mb/s for about 200MB then drops to 500kb/s for the rest. Steve

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Re: [luv-beginners] Dialup on Ubuntu 9.04
by Andrew McGlashan 05 Jan '13

05 Jan '13

Hi, On 27/04/2009 11:12 AM, Brian Clarkson wrote: > This may be a useful reference: > > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/setting-up-dial-up-connection-in-ubuntu.html > <http://www.ubuntugeek.com/setting-up-dial-up-connection-in-ubuntu.html> That's a rather old post from 2006. My preference would be to use WiFi or Ethernet and have another device handle the dialup and firewall duties; perhaps Clear OS, IPCop, Smoothwall, pfSense or some other distro dedicated for the job. Cheers AndrewM

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