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this looks like a regression error. Works out of the box on Mint 18.3 Ubuntu 16.04

Cheers Paul

Hi I am running 18.04 (mint remix) in an apple centric environment. They insist that I use bonjour/avahi/zeroconf for address resolution etc. Pinging a .local name results in "name or service not...

Couple of things you can do to begin trouble shooting:

1) see what the USB bus says - at the commandline "lsusb" and see if you can spot it.

2) unplug it and plug it back in. Then at the...

In windows best practise is to reboot weekly. All our servers were setup to reboot early on monday morning. This was because Windows was notorious for memory leaks. It also tended to stop any other...

Yes yet another clone of EasyCap...

This is a USB dongle containing an EM2860 and SAA7113h - pulled the cover off and had a look. The em28xx driver recognises this as a em2860/SAA711x reference...

Hi,
this seems to be now fixed. One of the big weaknesses of the whole Linux packaging system is that it is quite hard to install software if you don't have an internet connection. In this case...

Hi,
I have had to change a motherboard in my VM host. This motherboard has an R8168 based nic built in. I am finding that it doesn't work:

1) checked connectivity with a USB NiC (DM9601)...

It is always the simplest and stupidest things that get you. In this case the most probable cause was a hung nmbd. I used to understand all this stuff but I am a long way away from Windows now and it...

Hi Bab1,
the problem is the place to stand. All the traffic I am interested in will be inside the physical box Bildad across the bridge br0 etc. Since these are commandline only servers...

Hi,
thanks for the responses. All three are on the same two subnets. The requested information is below. There are no firewalls in place only the internet gateway (Nehemiah) which is running...

Hi,
I have a KVM host running 14.04 trusty. I have two KVM vms running 12.04 and 14.04 respectively. Each of the three are running the native version of Samba for that ubuntu version. The host...

This is actually a very very old bug in which ubuntu shutsdown the network before unmounting the shares. Something to do with cifs being a userspace driver. I had some hope that this was solved in...

Hi,
I have failed to get a DTV1800H with Hardy Heron using the instructions you quote. I believe that the instructions are specific to another kernel revision - Gutsy maybe.

To get a list of...

Started off using update manager. Due to what I guess is load it was a bit flakey. Never offered the upgrade of the distribution, timed out on various packages, failed to get the signatures etc.
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