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    Elantech Touchpad not detected

    Hallo Everyone,

    I have two "Terra" laptops (a 1460p and 1450ii) both with Elantech touchpads which originally worked when, in the BIOS, legacy-mode was selected.

    Now legacy-mode is no longer...
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    Re: Bluetooth found but not found

    Hallo Everyone,

    The link above managed to fix the problem but only when Blueman is opened with root (sudo) permissions. Otherwise the standard installation of Blueman still fails to see devices.
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    Re: Bluetooth found but not found

    Jeremy,

    Many thanks: With this link ...

    https://webwiks.com/techcorner/get-ralink-rt3290-bluetooth-work-in-linux/

    I managed to get the ralink RT3290 working and scanning for devices. I was...
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    Re: Bluetooth found but not found

    Hallo Jeremy,

    Many thanks for that tip!

    I will take a look and see what is available and otherwise get hold of an external (USB) bluetooth device. Does anyone have any tips for a good one of...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Always rebooting

    Good point: I will compare settings with another almost identical setup in another laptop and will report back. Thanks for the prod there!
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    [lubuntu] Re: Always rebooting

    Many thanks for the feedback.

    Here my replies ...

    - Suspend works fine: There is no reboot. So, yes, that is an option but it doesn't fix the problem.

    - With sudo shutdown -h now ... it...
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    Bluetooth found but not found

    Hi Everyone,

    I am trying to get Bluetooth working on an HP Probook 4540s and have the following strange situation ...

    systemctl detects the bluetooth device ...


    # systemctl | grep -i blue...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Network Lost

    MANY THANKS!

    yapidumoac's tip got it fixed :-)
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    [lubuntu] Re: Always rebooting

    Does no one have any suggestions here?

    It is driving me crazy that I have to do a forced power-down each time I want to shut down the system.

    Thanks for any tips that you can give me.

    Yours,...
  10. Thread: Network Lost

    by asearle
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    [SOLVED] Re: Network Lost

    Hallo Everyone,

    yapidumoac: Many thanks for the link.

    I trawled through a number of solutions with some looking extremely complicated.

    Then I happened upon what I thought was the ideal...
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    by asearle
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    [SOLVED] Network Lost

    Hallo Everyone,

    I have got myself into a very silly situation ...

    On a laptop that I am setting up (HP ProBook 4540s), I couldn't get Bluetooth to work. So I decided to first remove and then...
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    [lubuntu] Always rebooting

    Hallo Everyone,

    I have an irritating problem with a new install of Lubuntu 20.04: It always reboots after shutdown. Regardless of what I select (e.g. Shutdown).

    I think it worked OK originally...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Boot Device not found

    Dear Tea-for-one,

    Yes, that was exactly it!

    In BIOS I set it to UEFI (instead of legacy) and then booted using the UEFI option which was the last entry in the boot menu of my installation media...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Boot Device not found

    I have found the various options (ESC, F9, F10) to enter BIOS and to change the boot. Indeed, it was no problem to get the unit to boot from a USB drive. It just seems to have a problem booting...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Boot Device not found

    Many thanks for getting back to me. To answer your questions ...

    I installed several times. The last install was with "Legacy" rather than UEFI (in BIOS). Or is there an option in Linux during...
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    [SOLVED] Boot Device not found

    Hallo everyone,

    I am installing Lubuntu 20.04.1 on a HP 4540s laptop and, after an apparently successful install (clean install on a newly-formatted disk), I see the following screen ...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Lubuntu and Bluetooth

    Hi there,

    Here (below) is the output.

    It would be great if we could identify the problem.

    I have been comparing with another (slightly newer) laptop with, as far as I can see, identical...
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    [lubuntu] Lubuntu and Bluetooth

    Hallo Everyone,

    I have recently switched to Lubuntu 20.04 and find that nowhere near as man Bluetooth devices are detected. The ones not detected include the ones I want to connect which are...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to obtain authentication.

    TheFu,

    Many thanks! Well spotted!

    You guys are fantastic: I will get to work untangling that and give you feedback whether I was successful.

    Most important for me was to know what had...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to obtain authentication.

    Sorry, yes, here is the output from those commands (below).

    The main/original user is "alan". The second (new) user is "teresa".

    Many thanks for any tips.

    Yours,
    Alan
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to obtain authentication.

    Both users are allocated to these groups ...

    adm; cdrom; dip; lpadmin; plugdev; sambashare; sudo ... and a group with the same name as that user.

    I would really like to know what is happening...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to obtain authentication.

    Hallo,

    Exactly that is the strange thing: Both users are in the sudo group and both users (even when the GUI authentication is blocked) can carry out sudo commands from the command line. But...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to obtain authentication.

    Diagnosed ...

    This is VERY strange: I managed to fix the problem by removing the second user that I had created. Then the original user was able to access the GUI tools which require...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to obtain authentication.

    My suspicion is that this is what has happened: I did assign (and now de-assign) users to a number of extra groups.

    Anyway, I have compared groups on the problem-system with those on an identical...
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    [lubuntu] Re: Failed to obtain authentication.

    Dear TheFu,

    Many thanks for the information: That's excellent!

    But let me try to reduce my explanation to the minimum ...

    The problem appeared after I created directories for Virtualbox but...
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