Hi there,
I'm looking for a fan-less box to put into my home manage kids' access
to the internet.
(Internet) --- NBN RJ45 --- [This Box] --- Wireless access point ----
***clients***
Q1: Any ideas of a good, affordable system
Q2: Can I bridge the wireless so I can trace / manage MAC addresses (Or
some other solution)
Thanks
P
For the avoidance of doubt - I'm asking technical questions and not ones
about kids on the internet.
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 15:01:51 +1000, Timothy Rice
<timothy.rice(a)unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>> [ 7413.669770] usb 4-3.1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 8 using
>> xhci_hcd
>> [ 7413.682284] usb 4-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=174c,
>> idProduct=55aa, bcdDevice= 1.00
>> [ 7413.682285] usb 4-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3,
>> SerialNumber=1
>> [ 7413.682286] usb 4-3.1: Product: ASMT1051
>> [ 7413.682287] usb 4-3.1: Manufacturer: asmediag
>> [ 7413.682287] usb 4-3.1: SerialNumber: 1234567890B7
>
> It looks like such devices are a little notorious [1][2] but can be
> worked
> with using tweaks under /etc/modprobe.d/ [1][3]
>
> ~ Tim
>
> [1] https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=237829
> [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg109480.html
> [3] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg109524.html
>
Thanks for the advice and info.
It's all a bit beyond me at this stage of proceedings, I'll have to
spend some time trying come up to understand what it all means.
Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 14:30:00 +1000, Rohan McLeod <rhn(a)jeack.com.au> wrote:
> Terry Duell via luv-main wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> I'm running Fedora 30, and have an external USB drive that has been
>> used with a Windows laptop to save photos whilst travelling.
>> I'd now like to move those files to my Fedora system, but Fedora
>> doesn't see the drive.
>
> You don't say how big the drive is;
>
> it's definitely not an exFAT issue ?
>
It's 750GB.
I just ran dmesg immediately after connecting the drive and on that
occasion the drive mounted and the icon appeared on the desktop, but
sadly it isn't repeatable.
Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell
On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:25:04 +1000, Piers via luv-main
<luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> wrote:
>
> On 30/8/19 1:19 pm, Terry Duell via luv-main wrote:
>> Hello All,
>> I'm running Fedora 30, and have an external USB drive that has been
>> used with a Windows laptop to save photos whilst travelling.
>
>
> Does the drive have a propriety connection software (eg: security
> system) in Windows?
>
> Unplug it - plug it in and send the last few lines of (in terminal):
>
> dmesg
OK...that did something!
As soon as I ran dmesg the drive icon appeared on the desktop and I can
now access all the files...amazing.
Not sure why, but it may be a solution. Yet to see if it's repeatable.
Here's the last few lines from dmesg...
[ 7413.669770] usb 4-3.1: new SuperSpeed Gen 1 USB device number 8 using
xhci_hcd
[ 7413.682284] usb 4-3.1: New USB device found, idVendor=174c,
idProduct=55aa, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 7413.682285] usb 4-3.1: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3,
SerialNumber=1
[ 7413.682286] usb 4-3.1: Product: ASMT1051
[ 7413.682287] usb 4-3.1: Manufacturer: asmediag
[ 7413.682287] usb 4-3.1: SerialNumber: 1234567890B7
[ 7413.683330] usb-storage 4-3.1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 7413.683393] usb-storage 4-3.1:1.0: Quirks match for vid 174c pid
55aa: 400000
[ 7413.683427] scsi host8: usb-storage 4-3.1:1.0
[ 7414.595778] .
[ 7414.724129] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access ASMT 2105
0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 7414.724360] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg7 type 0
[ 7414.725081] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdg] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 7415.619771] .ready
[ 7415.621258] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] 1465149168 512-byte logical blocks:
(750 GB/699 GiB)
[ 7415.621260] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] 4096-byte physical blocks
[ 7415.621357] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Write Protect is off
[ 7415.621358] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 7415.621517] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Write cache: enabled, read cache:
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 7415.621678] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Optimal transfer size 33553920 bytes
not a multiple of physical block size (4096 bytes)
[ 7415.651278] sde: sde1 sde2 sde3
[ 7415.652518] sd 7:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI disk
[terry@localhost ~]$
Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell
Hello All,
I'm running Fedora 30, and have an external USB drive that has been used
with a Windows laptop to save photos whilst travelling.
I'd now like to move those files to my Fedora system, but Fedora doesn't
see the drive.
I have no trouble with USB sticks, connect them and they are immediately
available, but when I connect the drive I hear a couple 'pings' from the
system and that's all.
I've spent some time trawling through the various stories on the
subject, but all seem to relate to a permanent attachment, suggesting
changes to the /etc/fstab to always mount the USB drive. I'm really
looking for a 'casual' connection, as and when needed.
I know that I've been able to do this in the distant past, i.e. plug in
the drive and an icon appears and away I go, but that was a while ago
and using earlier versions of Fedora.
Any advice and help greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
--
Regards,
Terry Duell
Hi there,
I am looking to set up a VPN server for my cloud VM's.
There will be both windows and linux clients - ideally using
certificates to login.
- What do you recommend (eg: OpenVPN) and are there any licensing
requirements for an open source application?
- My preference is to avoid installing client's on Windows if the MS
network stack will handle it and it is secure - any pointers?
Thanks
Piers
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