Does someone know or can direct me to a recipe for getting OpenVPN to working on Bookworm?  I tried the "Always on VPN" instructions on the mobian-project.org website and changed the connection file as directed. I did this in "nano" and it saved correctly. It created a new entry in the Network settings app under the VPN section. It looked similar to the entry I did manually in that VPN section earlier. There is a switch to click on to enable the VPN, but after a few seconds, it turns itself off. I am not familiar with Wireguard and do not have a server to use. I have PIA VPN and ProtonVPN subscriptions now and can use them on Ubuntu and Android. I have even set up PIA VPN on my VPN router and it works great. There is an app for ProtonVPN listed on the mobian-org.org site and it has a "5" rating. I tried installing this several times with Bullseye and Bookworm and it does not work. I cannot get past the repository install and then the network connection stops working. I uninstall all of it and the network connection works again. There is no killswitch even installed yet. I would be willing to try a VPN connection through a terminal window. Any method you may have that has worked with you is welcome. I'll be willing to try anything. Thanks.

I have manjaro booting and I can interact with it using the woodpecker.

I would like to configure manjaro (or another distro if easier) to get me a console on /dev/ttyUSB0 (FTDI FT232R) and for it to be there by default on cold boot.

I found this article https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/working...al_console but I think it relates to a normal PC that boots with grub.  I don't know how I would do this on a Quartz64.

thanks

Hello.

I just received my pinephone this past friday.  I ordered it within two weeks of receiving it.

I have tried flashing the 2021-06-02 multi boot image to two different sdcards as well as the emmc.

In all 3 scenarios the multi boot gui does not come up consistently.  It just sits at a blank screen with a green led and then shuts off.

Even flashed on the emmc it just sits at a blank screen with a green led before shutting off.

I have seen the gui maybe 5 or 6 times over the weekend but I still cannot get it to consistently just boot to the gui.

Is there a hardware change or software change that I have missed?

Thank you.

hello everyone

Recently installed ukui3.0 desktop environment with armbian. This is very successful. It's very beautiful and runs smoothly.

Of course, there are some shortcomings. Its fever is particularly serious. The panel does not display WiFi, and the software store does not work, but it can be used after all.

My Pinetime was running fine for weeks after upgrading the new watch from Infinitime 1.2 to 1.3 (using GadgetBridge on my Lineage phone). Only problem I noticed was difficulty reconnecting to my phone.

But one night, a couple weeks ago, I noticed the watch had shut down. I restarted it with the power button, saw the 1.0.0 boot screen with pinecone, which filled with green (as normal) and then switched to Infinitime logo. The watch was otherwise completely unresponsive. Only thing I've been able to do is long-press the button to force a restart. Unable to connect with it via GadgetBridge...

I let the battery run out all the way (left it like that for a few days to see if it might reset thing for it to go completely flat - no luck so far!).

If I charge it briefly, I can see the same behaviour. The only other behaviour I see is that when I long-press and force a reboot, if I continue holding the button, the green progressing up the pinecone turns blue (if I let got at that point, it progresses in blue and goes to the Infinitime logo, same lack of responsiveness) and if i continue holding it turns red just before completing. In all cases, it then shifts to the Infinitime logo and is otherwise unresponsive.

Anyone else see this? Any thoughts on how to recover?

I bought the convergence package and have the PinePhone hub with ethernet. After my distribution upgrade to the "Bookworm" edition of Mobian, the PinePhone hub stopped working. It does work 100% satisfactorily with my Android Pixel 3 with Graphene OS and I'm okay with that.

I attached my eBay "UOEOS" USB-C ethernet dongle to my Anker 1H2C2A1S1M 7-in-1 USB-C hub then connected the Anker hub to my PinePhone and I get ethernet, keyboard, mouse, and HDMI video. The monitor is an Asus HDMI equipped unit.

I also have an Asus USB-C Zenscreen monitor (not a touch screen version) that works great with my Ubuntu NUC computer. I can attach this Zenscreen directly to the PinePhone USB-C port and it works fine. I'm still using wired keyboard and mouse and the Anker hub does not seem to support the USB-C Zenscreen. I'm trying to move everything over to USB-C. I saw that Anker does have a hub with ethernet, but I don't know if it will be compatible. I'm sending an email off to them about this.

Is there an Anker hub or other brand that would give me the USB-C monitor, wired USB keyboard, mouse, and ethernet?

Thanks.

Hi,

do I need to wipe out the eMMC before flashing a new OS to it?

In fact, I didn't do it, and after booting from the eMMC lsblk reports, in addition to the expected mmcblk2p1 and mmcblk2p2, two additional entries: mmcblk2boot0 and mmcblk2boot1. I wonder if those are left over from the previous OS...

Many thanks in advance!!

Hello Everyone!

If I'm posting this to the wrong place please let me know.



I'm currently working on getting a new app available on Mobian: QR Alchemy

I believe it to be ready for release from the testing I have done. However, I'd like to enlist the help of other interested parties. It's current version is 0.2.0rc2



What does it do?

It allows the creation and processing of qr codes. Thus allowing programs like megapixels to handle more qr code types. However, it is not a qr code scanning utility (it won't try to use your camera in any way).

Offers the following features:

• Allows system to handle new types of qr codes with default settings. Currently supports:
  • Wifi
    
• Allows the users to generate and display their own qr codes to share with friends such as:
  • Your current wifi network credentials
    
  • A custom code written by you
    
• Supports creating plugins to allow you to handle your own qr code types via input plugins
  
• Supports creating plugins to display custom qr codes via output plugins
  
• Allows the offering of the custom defined codes to the system to allow for programs to send the requests to qr_alchemy.
  
• Allows the saving of qr codes for later, as well as a brief history of the ones used.
  

Hi, 
I have tried a bunch of different images with various kernels, but in all cases performance is unusable. I'd like to use this device for [i]something[/i], but it needs to be reasonably good at it. I had issues with: some images black screening because they were intended for the low-res screen, some images not working when transferring them to emmc, GUI performance in general sucking, hardware support being incomplete and even non-GUI applications being slow. Kali worked, but it was just too slow to do anything. I'm not even expecting web browsing, at least a usable desktop. Is this even possible?

What are you running and what is the least sucky option that at least works?

Since about ten years, I run TouchCursor on my PC. It turns Space into a modifier:

• Space down, i down: equivalent to ↑
  
• Space down, j down: equivalent to ←
  
• Space down, u down: equivalent to Home
  
• Space down, y down: equivalent to PgUp
  
• Space down, Space up: regular space
  
• …