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wattOS R10 / Wireless works on LIVE CD but not when installed to HD (SOLVED)
« on: January 08, 2017, 01:41:16 PM »
Hi, guys

I installed R10 on an old Dell laptop for my bro-in-law. Wi-fi worked on Live CD - I didn't bother checking the installed version. He told me it didn't work - so I got it back, went through the existing thread here  on
the dreaded Broadcom cards. No joy - hardly surprising as I didn't understand most of it, but it appeared that the software was installed. The router was showing, the password was asked for, then - nothing.

Maybe it's something to do with permissions? I thought
so I attempted to run the relevant jobs with "sudo", but couldn't figure out what they were.

So I tried creating an "Administrator" account with Users and Groups.
Logged in, connected to wi-fi with no problems.
Clicked on "Edit Connections" and "General", checked the box to allow any user to access the wi-fi.
Simple as that.

Some 'Buntu purists might condemn this solution, but at the end of the day I suppose you can always
delete the Administrator a/c afterwards.

PS. Using another hard-drive I tried out Lubuntu  and had the same problem and the same solution.
so maybe it's a generic 'Buntu quirk?


 

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wattOS R10 / grub-efi-amd64-signed failed to install into /target/. (SOLVED)
« on: November 21, 2016, 03:46:41 PM »
Hi, folks

I was trying to install R10 on an Acer X3990 desktop PC ("use entire disk"),and kept getting this message.
I spent several hours reading about UEFI and trying to switch to legacy BIOS - but no such options exist on this machine.
Out of desperation (Lubuntu 14.10 had been on it) I tried installing a small distro that was conveniently
handy(ANTIX 15) then tried a dual-boot install and this time it worked!??????

Can someone explain this to me (I'm clueless).
I can only assume that Antix loaded grub, so Ubuntu didn't have to?

Also can someone tell me what software I can download to look at the partitioning, as gparted isn't available?.

I'm happy with the bodge for now - I just want to know what is going on (apart from M$ trying to make life difficult if you don't buy their products)

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Feedback and Suggestions / A Thumbs Up for R10
« on: October 28, 2016, 01:06:09 PM »
It runs swimmingly fast on my old dual-core machine.

No issues at all, except for the sleeping-mouse problem and the need-to-add-recommended-updates-to-the-repositories problem - both of which are well documented on the forum, complete with fixes.

I did wonder, though, why "unrar" was not pre-loaded together with Xarchiver by the installation?
(Maybe that's the case with all distros - my memory is not what it used to be!)

Also, does anyone have an IDIOTS GUIDE to LOLLYPOP?

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wattOS R8 / Security Updates only?
« on: February 12, 2015, 11:48:58 AM »
Hello all,

I have set up Synaptic to accept only Security patches - i.e. I have unticked the "recommended updates" option.
(The reason for this is that when VLC got an update I had to re-apply I fix I'd already made and this
is a P.I.A to keep doing. Also I plan to give this ancient Dell Machine away to someone who little-or-no
PC skills)

My question is - is this likely to create any problems further down the line?

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wattOS R8 / Playing Youtube clips in VLC
« on: January 29, 2015, 10:42:49 PM »
Hello all,

I've just installed WattOS R8 on an old Dell Latitude D400.(single core 1.4Ghz! - it's at least 10 years old.:
I'm really pleased with how quickly it runs, especially with the Midori browser installed..
Kudos to BiffBaxter et al!

Unfortunately it  struggles to play  flash  (as you would expect)  and inserting the URL into VLC wasn't working.
I installed SMplayer which also does not work.

FWIW there is a simple solution for VLC here that works  :

https://www.lisenet.com/2013/vlc-2-0-3-fails-to-play-youtube-videos-on-debian-wheezy/

Looking forward to R9!

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