[sf-lug] Meeting notes from Sunday 7 February 2016

[maestro]

quoting bobbie s.:
>showing me about the 'rfkil"
>command I was able to get it working immediately
>on reboot.

bobbie,
just for clarity the command i showed you IS part of 'rfkill' and was in
fact 'rfkill list'. this command gives output as to if your WLAN has soft
and/or hard blocks.

e.g.
[code:]

#rfkill list
Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

it can be used to troubleshoot network connection problems/issues...

and yes, indeed, it can correct possible problems which it DID for you by
unblocking.

to find out more about this command...
[code:]
#man rfkill

and search howto's online...


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On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com
> wrote:

> Hi LUGers,
>
>         10:40 AM arrived at the Cafe, preceded by Ron
> Wellman.  This was a smallish meeting but seemed
> quite active.
>
>     Ron and I had a nice talk for about 15-20 minutes as
>     I set up the notebook, without real problems.
>     I have to say that one of the distros I had tried out
> last week had shut off my WiFi card.
>     Thanks to Maestro showing me about the 'rfkil"
> command I was able to get it working immediately
> on reboot.
>
>     Gave Ron, Maestro who showed up next, and Jim
> Stockford who showed up about Noon, copies
> of the Knoppix 7.6.1 release.
>
>     It seems that Ron and Jim are trying to set up a
> 'buntu server with some problems that may relate to
> the media so I will be downloading the 14.10 LTS server
> for them.
>
>     Michael came in next.  Still very happy with his
> Slackware installation.  We talked a lot about memorable
> moments such as the death of Stalin and a few others.
>
>     Ron spent a lot of time reading the magazines I
> dragged along. Ron left shortly after Jim arrived
>
>     I also gave Jim a copy of Scientific Linux
> 2016.1-7.2-x86_64-02-02 .
>
>     I had an unmarked DVD along and tried to boot it up
> to discover its contents,  It was a copy of Kali 2.0 x86_64
> but it would not boot from either the uefi or the plain
> DVD drive,  so I over-wrote it and then was able to get
> it to boot from plain DVD drive.  Sadly this is more than
> ever a distribution for the highly skilled user apparently
> for those happy to configure a WiFi connection from a
> terminal.  Since I could not get it online I did not try
> anything else such as the IceWeasel browser.
>
>     I believe Maestro was having some configuration
> problems and Jim helped him with that from about 12:30
> until about 01:15 PM and then we adjourned.
>      Jim gave me a ride back to my place.
>
>     If anyone else attending that meeting or otherwise
> aware of the issues discussed has emendation or
> additions please post them ASAP so that misconceptions
> may be be quashed before they have a chance to sink
> in,
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
>
>
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