libera/#devuan/ Tuesday, 2021-04-27

tuxd3vhttps://vimeo.com/1438835808:36
systemdlete2ok, once again, I forgot:  Does Star use the devuan repos, or does it have its own?11:20
systemdlete2I'm trying to do a star net install, and it complains that there is not a valid release file.11:21
systemdlete2It seems to be almost identical to the devuan net install, so I'm wondering why it is failing.11:21
onefangIt's possible you hit that package repo while it was syncing to the upstream package repo.  It happens every now and then.  Wait ten minutes and try again.11:22
systemdlete2onefang:  Thanks!11:22
systemdlete2(I figured it might be that)11:22
onefangIf it's saying which repo, lemme know which it is.11:22
systemdlete2https://imgur.com/kKOeAwR11:27
onefangThat says deb.devuan.org, which is the DNS round robin, but doesn't say the actual mirror IP it resolved to for you at that time.11:29
systemdlete2You know what?  Somehow I don't think the network is set up correctly.  I'm checking11:31
systemdlete2It's nat'd ... I was able to do this with beowulf, so I'm not sure what's up.  I cannot reach the Internet, so I have more to look at yet.11:33
systemdlete2onefang:  nvm.  I fingerchecked... I have network again.11:36
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john24hello16:16
john24i seem to have an issue with with a TP-link adapter is anyone here willing to help?16:17
john24i am currently on devuan chimera16:19
john24the wifi adapter uses a realtek chip16:19
john24according to lsusb it's a RTL8192EU16:19
john24which should be included on the firmware-realtek package16:19
john24but i still can't get the system to use it16:20
Tenkawawhen you do a dmesg | grep firmware do you get any firmware missing messages?16:21
john24nope16:22
john24oh i should also say that the unstable repo is also enabled16:22
Tenkawathe RTL8192EU has a fair number of variations.. its not quite as straightforward of a driver as it should be16:22
john24well16:23
Tenkawaif you do a google search you'll see that its got many variations of the chipset that might need specific branched drivers16:23
john24at least i know it works on ubuntu and windows...16:25
john24so its not dead :)16:25
Tenkawawhats your kernel config show for CONFIG_RTL8192CU16:25
Tenkawait may just not be modprobed16:26
Tenkawaor not enabled in the kernel at all16:26
john24its CONFIG_RTL8192CU=m16:28
onefangIs it a TL-WN722N?16:28
john24TL-WN821N16:28
john24V6 to be exact16:29
john24or i think its V6? the paper on the back says V6 linux says its V516:29
onefangThe 722 is what I have on my test box, I can help with that, but not any others.16:29
Tenkawajohn24: is that the odd one?16:29
john24I do happen to also have a WN722N16:30
Tenkawathis is a really obfuscated chipset16:30
john24TN-W722N is atheros though onefang16:31
Tenkawaer I typoed16:33
TenkawaI said EU once and then CU once16:33
john24ah just noticed that16:36
Tenkawathhttps://linux-hardware.org/?id=usb:2357-010716:36
Tenkawadoes it match this lsusb?16:37
TenkawaUSB 2357:010716:37
john24yes16:37
john24i guess i should check for CONFIG_RTL8XXXU ?16:37
TenkawaRTL8XXXU is the driver you want16:37
onefangIf you need help with a TL-WN722N let me know.  I'll turn on my test box and go digging.16:38
Tenkawaif you look below 2 git projects for it16:38
Tenkawaonefang: completely different driver than yours16:39
Tenkawayours is Atheros.. his is Realtek16:40
onefangThat's why I'm only affering help for mine, he said he has one of those as well.16:41
Tenkawaahh ok.. cool… ath9k are good devices too16:41
johnt440swell16:54
johnt440snow it works16:54
johnt440sthanks16:54
hiddenerlong live devuan16:55
johnt440syes16:55
johnt440sgotta say i really do like openrc16:55
johnt440s:)16:55
hiddeneri have it with openrc too ;)16:55
onefangI have a document in PDF that I need to sign, and a graphics tablet I can use to do the signing.  Anyone know any software in Beowulf that would let me do that?17:13
onefangIf not, something I ran use to add a graphic file on top of the PDF, coz I can always scrawl my signature in GIMP.17:13
onefangNo I don't own a printer.17:14
onefangHmm, LibreOffice might work.17:23
nemoonefang: heh. gimp is my fav method to scrawl a signature layer ☺17:25
nemoonefang: be real careful with libreoffice's PDF editing17:25
nemodoublecheck the final result17:25
nemoagainst the original17:25
onefangAny other PDF editing software that I don't have to be careful with?17:26
nemogimp?17:26
nemoupdf has this built in apparently17:26
nemobut haven't used it17:27
onefangGIMP wants to split the PDF into page per image.17:27
nemoonefang: problem with libreoffice is it's editing the PDF as a vector doc then exporting and I've had layout issues afterwards, or missing bits17:27
nemoonefang: you can choose to do layer per page instead in the GIMP import17:27
nemoonefang: it's my preferred way to do it17:27
nemoI've filled out like 20 page PDFs full of text that way17:27
nemoI just add text fields everywhere, then drag the next page above 'em, start a ton more text fields, sometimes cloning17:28
nemohttps://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/85873/how-can-i-add-a-signature-png-to-a-pdf-in-linux17:28
onefangupdf isn't in Beowulf according to synaptic.  Is it part of another package?17:28
nemohas an ubuntu PPA apparently, so could probably download a .deb from there...17:29
nemoI'm unfamiliar with it though17:29
nemoI just use gimp17:29
nemosomeone else on that stackexchange provided a script. that seems kinda fiddly to me17:29
onefangAh, looks like GIMP can export all those pages into one file.17:36
onefangThe instructions at the bottom of that stackexchange page nemo posted, using GIMP, did the trick.  Though I scrawled on a new layer inside the PDF layers instead of doing a separate PNG.18:00
onefangThanks nemo.18:01
nemonp18:06
nemoonefang: yeah. that's what I do18:06
onefangBasically - open the PDF in GIMP, use default "pages as layers".  This gives you one page per layer.  Turn off the visibility of pages on top of the one you want to scrawl on.  Create new layer, move it on top of the target page layer, scrawl on it, merge it down.  Make all page layers visible.  Export as PDF, choose layers as pages, and invert the order of layers.18:06
nemoonefang: actually, what I really did was.  A decade ago I took a nice fat black permanent marker, scrawled my signature real big on a white page, scanned that at a high resolution, opened it in Inkscape and used their trace function18:06
nemoonefang: I then exported it to svg and I use it whenever I have a stupid form to fill out.18:06
nemoimport the svg as a layer into libreoffice, gimp, whatever.18:07
onefangI have a graphics table I use as a mouse pad, that I can use for scrawling easily.18:07
nemonice18:07
nemobeen meaning to get one of those18:07
nemoesp since I lost wacom stylus on my phone *sniff*18:07
nemonote 4 was best android phone, hardware wise. I miss it18:07
onefangIt's an ancient Wacom, but it still works fine.18:08
nemoyeah. samsung notes use wacom licensed stylus. it is awesomeness. since I had to abandon my note 4 last year due to failing hardware, I've lost my stylus.  I guess I should buy a proper tablet18:08
nemomaybe one of those where you can mirror the display for easier drawing18:08
onefangI even do OpenSim terraforming with it.  B-)18:09
nemoonefang: the svg file is still a timesaver though18:09
nemobut thankfully signatures like that are rare these days. mostly just government forms18:10
nemono one is that dumb elsewhere18:10
onefangYep.  So rare I forget how to do my own signature.  lol18:10
nemohehe18:10
onefangThis was a step up from "we use this web site to digitally sign documents", but that web site wants me to agree to FIVE legal documents before I even got to see the document, four of them lengthy.  I'm not agreeing to FIVE legal documents for some unrelated web site, I'm signing this one damn legal document I need to sign.  So she sent me a PDF instead.18:13
onefangBut now I'm getting off topic.  lol18:14
nemoonefang: have you seen the hilarious (and thankfully rarely necessary) tool to make a PDF look faxed for signature purposes?18:22
onefangNo.18:22
nemohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315740818:23
nemodon't use the website. just read the comments18:23

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