Hi Folks, I am not very clever with these things and rely heavily on the good folks who populate these forums!
My only previous experience has been using Linux Mint which I have had on several old machines.

With this lock down and being totally alone, I have dusted off a very old laptop which has Windows XP on it.
For some reason it will not boot into windows, I tried a USB stick with Linux Mint 17 32bit, but it wouldn't "see" the USB at Boot, so I enabled "Legacy Support" in BIOS but still the drive was ignored at Boot, so I finally tried an old disk copy of Linux lite which did boot after a few complaints.
I was really trying to find out just why XP wasn't booting, but I guess that was expecting too much of my tiny brain!

As Clint Eastwood used to say in Dirty Harry, "...a man's gotta know his limitations!"

Having taken the line of least resistance, I am now wanting to install either Linux lite or another Lite distro on this machine but first, I would like to be able to activate the WiFi card. It is a Linksys Wireless G Notebook Adapter Model WPC54G and slide into a PCI card slot in the laptop.
It was working just fine with Windows XP, and I recall using it with Mint a long time ago but now with this install Linux 3.13.0-24-generic(i686) I can't find out how to install the driver.
Can anyone help me please?

Hey,

I've been using linux lite 3.8 for around 4 months now. Before 3 months or so there came an update of linux kernal 4.4.112 to 4.4.178. After the update the mesa driver was updated
from 17.2.4 to 18.0.5.

The issue is that now when i play any video in vlc there is occasional fluttering which is kinda bugging.. It worked perfect with Mesa 17.2.4.

I tried changing the kernal as I thought mesa drivers come with kernals (not very linux savvy ;D) but even after changing kernal the mesa version remained the same and videos still flutters.

I did search on google about updating the mesa driver, but all are telling to add a "ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/updates", but there is no new updates & I'm still in mesa driver 18.0.5

Please help to fix the issue. There is no new updates so can anyone help to downgrade the mesa driver to 17.2.4 (if thats the best solution)  

On Linux Lite 4.8, 8 GB Ram.
Using a Swiss (German/French) generic 105-key QWERTZ keyboard.
Need to reassign brace characters to replace £ + $ characters.
Is that feasible and - if so - how can I do that?
Would appreciate any help.

[size=1em]I am learning about Splunk in my spare time, and a lab called for "Data Onboarding: IPtables Logs."  The goal was to get more data into Splunk by using the following commands to generate syslog data.  The commands are:[/size]

[size=1em]iptables -I INPUT 1 -j LOG[/size]
[size=1em]iptables -I FORWARD 1 -j LOG[/size]
[size=1em]iptables -I OUTPUT 1 -j LOG[/size]

[size=1em]I was following along the lab, and when I finished the lab, I didn't think anything of the changes I made.  I hadn't touched my Splunk environment for several days, and then today I noticed I was getting license warnings because my Splunk setup was going over the daily data limit for my free license.  I assume it has something to do with the above commands.  Does anyone know how to reverse the above commands?  I don't know much about iptables.  My educated guess was to type in the following and restart Splunk.[/size]

[size=1em]iptables -D INPUT 1 [/size]
[size=1em]iptables -D FORWARD 1 [/size]
[size=1em]iptables -D OUTPUT 1 [/size]

[size=1em]I don't know if what I entered above is the proper way to reverse the commands or not.[/size]

Does anybody know of or recommend a service for messaging use that has a good desktop linux program for small business use?

More lol's from the Mailbox of a distro maintainer (contains abuse, swearing)...



Gotta make sure those 'arythmetically encoded jpg files' are working.

Hello Everyone,

I am new here and also Linux is newish to me, I have used a few time back in the days but now I have pulled the trigger and have converted my full time laptop to run Linux.
So there is a lot for me to learn. I have tried to run a search from the search bar so if I have happened to missed it please don't roast me that badly.

Anyway enough of my boring stuff, I was wondering if anyone here have any issues on setting up L2TP VPN connection?
I am runing LL4.8 with:
network-manager-l2tp
network-manager-l2tp-gnome

So far this is have managed to setup an L2TP profile on the network VPN connection.

I have put in the usual settings:
Gateway (Tried both hostname and IP address),
add in the Username and Password,
I have confirmed the account is working as I have tested the same account under Windows and Via the Phone it seems to be connecting ok.

Under IPsec setting:
Enable IPsec tunnel to L2TP host
Enter in the Pre-Shared Key xxxxxx,

Under L2TP PPP Options:
Allow PAP Authentication (confirmed with Cisco support that this PAP is the one to use)
I did try a few different combination such as MSCHAP, MSCHAPv2 still didn't work.

With the above setting I am unable to get it connected and kept failing on me.

If there is one of you guru can point me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
Not sure if I am missing on some plugin? or perhaps I have missed out on some tick box?

Let me know if you wanted me to upload some pic

Kind regards
Newbie User

I installed Tor browser from install/software.
And said yes to all dependencies needed.
It installed but wont launch.
Any ideas?
Thanks

I've tried many distros. Mainly for portable USB.
THIS distro is the best, simply becasue it's easy to use and everything WORKS!

It's the only distro I've not had to troubleshoot.. and usually fail doing so.


I managed to figure out im Running 4.8.
Can I upgrade without having to do a fresh install?

If so, how?
Thanks !