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by boldstripe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 3:12 pm
Forum: MX Modified
Topic: Faxserver with MXLinux
Replies: 11
Views: 3298

Re: Faxserver with MXLinux

I am not sure if I understand what you are looking for, but I recently installed efax-gtk and used it to send faxes with a US Robotics USB modem off eBay. The software is also known to work with USB modems with Connexant chips and these are inexpensive to buy new.

efax-gtk Installation on Samsung ...
by boldstripe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 2:21 pm
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1
Replies: 7
Views: 1701

Re: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1

Drives: Local Storage: total: 118.24 GiB used: 542.87 GiB (459.1%)
I saw that. I think it may be including both the internal drive *plus* a FUSE WebDAV drive--in reality on the network--that has about that much on it.
by boldstripe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:34 pm
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1
Replies: 7
Views: 1701

Re: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1

Success too with applying your commands to change the wifi driver to wl, which seems to work well. Thank you!

$ inxi -N
Network: Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n driver: wl


Could using wl make any difference to whether I can now install grub on the ESP? And would I want to ...
by boldstripe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:55 am
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1
Replies: 7
Views: 1701

Re: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1

I think I had trouble with the wl driver and the bridge worked best, but I will take another look.

The return from that command today:

$ inxi -N
Network: Device-1: Broadcom Limited BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n driver: b43-pci-bridge

Yes, I definitely need to make that ISO and USB boot backup, which I ...
by boldstripe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:15 am
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1
Replies: 7
Views: 1701

Re: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1

I was able to fix this by trying some things in the Boot Rescue options when I booted from an MX install USB drive. Then, once back into my system, I ran Boot Repair from MX Tools and reinstalled GRUB on the MBR.
by boldstripe
Tue Oct 20, 2020 11:02 am
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1
Replies: 7
Views: 1701

Re: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1

Following an upgrade with MX Package Installer today, this machine cannot get beyond Grub at boot.

GRUB loading.
Welcome to GRUB!

incompatible license
Aborted. Press any key to exit.

[I press a key]

No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key

I have an installer USB drive for ...
by boldstripe
Tue Sep 29, 2020 6:16 am
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1
Replies: 7
Views: 1701

MX-19.2 success on 2008 Macbook Air 1,1

Mac Air early 2008 model 1,1
This was the first 'Air' model introduced by Apple in January 2008 and it has known limitations: core2duo CPU and 2GB RAM limited performance. In fact, Apple withdrew this computer and replaced it with an upgrade within its first year. My machine was a 'refurb' which ...
by boldstripe
Thu Sep 10, 2020 4:05 pm
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: [SOLVED] File permissions - how to make data available to all users
Replies: 5
Views: 1283

Re: [SOLVED] File permissions - how to make data available to all users

This is a valuable solution, I have had this problem sharing files between two users on a single machine on MacOS many times over the years, sometimes giving up and 'sharing' through Dropbox on the same machine just to get this kind of access. MacOS and Linux have the same issue.

I just wanted to ...
by boldstripe
Mon Aug 10, 2020 11:06 am
Forum: Success Stories
Topic: MX-19.2 success on 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 with NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600
Replies: 0
Views: 550

MX-19.2 success on 2008 Mac Pro 3,1 with NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600

I successfully installed MX-Linux 19.2 with a USB flash drive and the standard 64-bit installer, putting a single operating system on a whole internal SSD drive.

I had the original Mac USB keyboard and plugged it directly into the front of the computer (past experience tells me that using original ...

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