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  other kind of 2fa/mfa
Posted by: zetabeta - 04-02-2023, 02:43 PM - Forum: General - Replies (2)

this is little bit offtopic of pine forums, but i think it interests some users. other kind of 2fa/mfa.

because of possible privacy issues, data collection and locking to close platforms, like google play and apple store, i don't usually like 2fa or mfa. two-factor-authentication or multi-factor-authentication is additional required policy for many services to getting in.

i found by coincidence a reasonable alternative, which can be used for 2fa/mfa systems. essentially, it has no privacy or data collection issues (assuming of usage). it is totp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-based...e_password . it is based on time and correct timezone.

i initiated this on some services already, but i don't name those here, because of advertising. quite often, it is called an "authenticator app".

also hardware based totp devices are available, but might be cumbersome to be activated for service.

in debian, there is a package "oathtool". which can used by following, note -b is for base32.

Code:
watch oathtool --totp -b base32-coded-key-here

there is graphical apps as well. base32 is usually a default instead of hex input. for oathtool, hex input is default.

many services require 2fa/mfa, and what annoys me is that those services require an app which is dependent on google play services or apple store. basically forcing closed platforms. totp was created somewhat long time ago, so it has been available as a possible choice already.

this is one example that i'm not necessarily against 2fa or mfa, it is more like, how it is implemented. and there are choices.


  PinePhone keyboard tones
Posted by: mlnease - 04-02-2023, 02:20 PM - Forum: General Discussion on PinePhone - Replies (10)

Hello,

I am new to Linux (except Ubuntu) and to this forum; my PinePhone is my first "smart" phone (at age 70!) so my questions will likely be elementary.  Thanks for your patience.

My problem is that the virtual keys don't produce audible tones when touched so that I can't use it for automated phone systems ("Press 1 Now" for example).  I've looked everywhere I can think of in Settings including Sound, Tweaks, Mobile Settings and Keyboard to no avail.

Thanks in advance.

p.s. The application is 'Calls'.


  Nemomobile in March 2023
Posted by: jmlich - 04-02-2023, 02:45 AM - Forum: Nemo Mobile on PinePhone - No Replies

Highlights for March:
- move from lightdm to systemd based autologin
- fixes in ngfd and volume settings slider

http://nemomobile.net/pages/nemomobile-in-march-2023/


  ADATA XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB NVMe SSD Perf
Posted by: Atch - 04-01-2023, 02:51 PM - Forum: RockPro64 Hardware and Accessories - No Replies

This post is mainly to share my tests result, but I have two questions:

- Did someone managed to boot from this SSD? Boot from Intel 660p 2 TB works fine but not this one?

I noticed that my tests on the Intel 660p 2 TB are slower than before any idea why?
I am using Armbian with linux kerne5.15.93-rockchip64 #23.02.2, we might get better results on linux kernel v4?

Note: The RP64 has a PCIe NVMe v2.0 x4 (not a v3.0) the speed is limited and not representative of the SSD real performance.


WRITE
sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=512 count=1024 oflag=dsync; sync; rm tempfile
524288 bytes (524 kB, 512 KiB) copied, 0.720266 s, 728 kB/s

sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1M count=1024; sync; rm tempfile
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 3.60083 s, 298 MB/s

sync; dd if=/dev/zero of=tempfile bs=1G count=4 oflag=dsync; sync
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB, 4.0 GiB) copied, 15.6034 s, 275 MB/s

READ
dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=512 count=2048
1048576 bytes (1.0 MB, 1.0 MiB) copied, 0.0285999 s, 36.7 MB/s
dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=1M count=1024
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.00752 s, 535 MB/s
dd if=tempfile of=/dev/null bs=2M count=2048
4294967296 bytes (4.3 GB, 4.0 GiB) copied, 7.23786 s, 593 MB/s


[b]sync; sudo sysctl vm.drop_caches=3
hdparm -tT --direct /dev/nvme0n1[/b]
Timing O_DIRECT cached reads:   1096 MB in  2.00 seconds = 548.08 MB/sec
Timing O_DIRECT disk reads: 1714 MB in  3.00 seconds = 570.76 MB/sec

sync; sudo sysctl vm.drop_caches=3
hdparm -Tt /dev/nvme0n1


Timing cached reads:   2472 MB in  2.00 seconds = 1235.97 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 1484 MB in  3.00 seconds = 494.27 MB/sec


The distribution / kernel seems to be the reason for the change of speed:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...4#pid43884

The kernel version seems to be a reason for the change of speed:
https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?...4#pid43884


  Star64 unikernal
Posted by: WhiteHexagon - 04-01-2023, 04:34 AM - Forum: General - Replies (1)

I have playing around with gokrazy, a unikernal project for the RPi, and very interested to see if such a project is feasible with your new upcoming Star64 Risc-V SBC.  I have some assembly code that initialises the Pi, and first step would be porting this over.  Is the Star64 documented well enough for such a project, I know that the Pi benefits from being around for a long time.  I can see 4+1 cores? (JH7110 has 6 no?) and already keen to find some documentation in preparation for your launch.


  Manjaro - which libdrm?
Posted by: hacknix - 04-01-2023, 03:21 AM - Forum: General Discussion on Pinebook Pro - No Replies

Hi all

I can't seem to work out, is it required/recommended to install the package "libdrm-pinebookpro" or is the functionality/fixes that this provides now included in the mainline libdrm package?

I have been having some issue with OpenGL objects within a programme (Mixxx DJ software Waveform display) causing some problems.

Thanks in advance.

hacknix


  changing from bullseye to bookworm to install mmsd-tng
Posted by: jyoung - 03-31-2023, 08:29 PM - Forum: PinePhone Software - Replies (8)

I'm trying to change from the bullseye repository to the bookworm, and I'm getting an error about the repository being unsigned. In /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mobian.list

I changed

deb http://repo.mobian-project.org/ bullseye main non-free

to

deb http://repo.mobian-project.org/ bookworm main non-free

but now when I run

apt update

I get

Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye InRelease
Get:2 http://repo.mobian-project.org bookworm InRelease [32.4 kB]
Err:2 http://repo.mobian-project.org bookworm InRelease
  The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
Reading package lists... Done
W: GPG error: http://repo.mobian-project.org bookworm InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 951D61F2BC232697 Mobian Project <admin@mobian-project.org>
E: The repository 'http://repo.mobian-project.org bookworm InRelease' is not signed.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Does anyone know what might cause this?


  PINE A64-LTS v2 - Can't get WiFi to work
Posted by: Voidwatcher - 03-31-2023, 12:04 AM - Forum: P64-LTS / SOPINE Hardware, Accessories and POT - Replies (2)

My WiFi/Bluetooth daughter board just arrived today for my PINE A64-LTS V2 that I've been integrating into a project.  I've been using the SBC with a wired Ethernet connection for weeks (although that had its own challenges, I eventually had to limit it to 10/100) and finally now I'm trying to get wireless going.  Unfortunately, I cannot get it to work after several hours of troubleshooting and I'm hoping someone out there has some ideas.

First, the basics... Issuing uname -a produces this:

Code:
Linux pine64so 5.15.80-sunxi64 #22.11.1 SMP Wed Nov 30 11:23:00 UTC 2022 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

This is the only distro image that I was able to find that works on this specific hardware.  I guess the V2 board is based off of the SOPINE modules. The one I downloaded is "Armbian_22.11.1_Pine64so_jammy_current_5.15.80.img.xz" image up on https://armbian.hosthatch.com/archive/pine64so/archive/

ifconfig just shows eth0 and lo.  
iwconfig shows this:

Code:
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=12 dBm  
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off


Snippit from /etc/network/interfaces:
Code:
# Interface wlan0
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp


Contents of wpa_supplicant.conf, although I originally started out with a more complex version, but I whittled it down to just this, as this bare minimum should still work I think.  (Please correct me on this.)
Code:
network={
    ssid="My home network SSID"
    psk="XXXXXXXXXXX"
}


If I issue the ifup wlan0 command it shows me that the daemon doesn't start:

Code:
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
ifup: failed to bring up wlan0


I'm also using a GUI desktop environment and WiFi doesn't show up in Network Manager because of my manual definition in the interfaces file.

If I remove the wlan0 definition from interfaces, then WiFi does show up in the Network Manager, however even though it lets me turn off and on the WiFi connection itself, it doesn't enumerate any wireless networks.  The list is just blank.

I've tried both my 5G network and my 2.44Ghz network; neither work when specifying them manually in the wpa_supplicant.conf file.

So it seems to me that the wpa_supplicant daemon failing to start must be the direction I need to be troubleshooting, but at this point I'm out of ideas on how to go further.

Can anyone help?


  DC plug length
Posted by: pehjota - 03-30-2023, 11:01 AM - Forum: General Discussion on ROCKPRO64 - Replies (3)

Hello,

Can anyone please tell me the length of the DC plug? I know the outer diameter is 5.5 mm and the inner diameter is 2.1 mm, but I can't find the length (or even a part number for J11 that I could check, since there's no BOM published).


  still monthly updates?
Posted by: Jeniffer - 03-30-2023, 05:19 AM - Forum: General - No Replies

I'm used to seeing an update around the 15th of each month on the Pine64 blog. Are those not happening anymore?

Are the updates somewhere else?