LinuxQuestions.org - Entries for September 2019

Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.

How I got my obscure Realtek USB wireless adapter to work

Posted 09-27-2019 at 03:07 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 11-05-2020 at 02:40 PM by the dsc (more relevant things to add)

Tags realtek, wifi, wireless

The device is " 0bda:f179 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. 802.11n," per lsusb. Using this driver:

https://github.com/kelebek333/rtl8188fu

Not the deb files, the dkms path. (Speaking of path, I have the impression it has explicitly coded paths and needs to be installed from /usr/src)

Including the added settings regarding USB plugging and power management issues, AND the advice on this forum:

https://forum.manjaro.org/t/wifi-onl...first/98932/32...

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CPU temperature stuff for cpufreqd, from the Debian forum

Posted 09-17-2019 at 12:03 PM by the dsc (linux-related notes)

Just to compile my "findings" here

Quote:

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=71723

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[SOLVED] - it turns out that the driver I thought I needed to use, it8718, was only one of the drivers detected by sensors-detect (or detect-sensors, whatever), other one I've missed was actually called just "coretemp". I thought it was a label, not an actual driver. My sensors.conf hadn't a section for such driver though. I've googled a

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"Rofi" seems to be the best alt+f2 / fbrun replacement for Openbox

Posted 09-10-2019 at 10:25 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 09-11-2019 at 08:06 AM by the dsc

Tags fbrun, launcher, openbox

Not to be confused with ROFL.
Fbrun is quite nice, does what is supposed to, but the history corruption is quite disappointing.
Gmrun looks nice, but is terribly limited, you can't launch a command with any parameter, "foobarizer /path/to/file --foo --bar" becomes just "foobarizer." Yet it seems somewhat noticeably slower than FBrun.

I thought I could have an improvised replacement with something like bash -c "$(zenity --entry)", but it's...

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