Re: how to change default nameserver?
On 4/11/23 13:36, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 01:09:37PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
So ATM I have no clue what I did because I've forgotten whatever I did to
make it work for bullseye, lost in the noise from doing 23 damned installs
before someone suggested I unplug all usb, but my key board and mouse are
wireless, so I left those buttons plugged it and did yet another install and
this one worked. I've since rebuilt my usb tree as it reaches like a weeping
willow to nearly every inch of the real estate here. All that re-install BS
caused by the installer silently finding a couple usb-serial adaptors and
ASSUMING I was blind and using brltty and orca. Has any of you ever tried to
use a computer whose keyboard response was delayed by nearly 2 seconds per
keystroke because its looking for a 1200 baud tty that isn't there, and then
yells the keystroke at you in some idea of a computer voice. Spend 2 weeks
trying to use a computer like that, and you'll have a new appreciation for
my level of frustration.
Your experience led me to fixing someone else's problem on IRC.
They were trying to install Debian for linuxcnc (but on an amd64 machine)
and had the same problem because they'd left a serial lead plugged in so
got brltty and orca.
I advised them to reinstall to fix things but this time to undo the serial
lead until the install was over. That worked fine for them and they were
very happy. (It's the simple fix that I think I suggested that to you three
times in the course and was ignored.)
Possibly you did, but I didn't glom the usb connection because it came
with no reason until the last time.
It should have asked me if I wanted that crap but did not.
If you're deafblind and using a Braille reader - it looks for a serial tty.
That's the only way it can work. It can't ask you first necessarily.
That is a huge if. Probably less than 1% of the folks who only fit in
one box or the other. It could have loaded orca and spoke to me, but
didn't, it could have asked me on screen and didn't. What it did was
make an ass out me in everyone elses mind. Yeah, these days I'm an old
fart with the poor short term memory that goes with 88 years on the wet
ram. But I was carving code for an rca 1802 chip before most of the
readers here were born, doing it by looking up the memonic, and entering
the corresponding hex code in a quest super elf's hex monitor, code so
useful in 1979 that it was still in daily use at KRCR-tv when the
station burnt to the ground in the later 90's, well after Mt St Helens
blew its top. As a retired television Chief (& usually only, I'm a CET
too) Engineer, that 16 or so years might as well be a couple of eons,
the tech, even in never twice same color days, the tech moved a heck of
a lot faster than that.
My wife of 31 years passed a couple years back and I should throw my
poles in the boat and go fishing. But I've been diabetic for nearly 40
years & the water is too cold for my feet, so for S&G's I'm building a
3d printer farm instead.
You have all claimed I missed it or told it to install that, but 23 damned
times? I'm sure its here someplace because all 24 times I filled in the
network details manually and was equally amazed when I still had a network
on the after install reboot. That FWIW, was a first.
Everything works except printer sharing and I can't ask cups, my posts to
the cups list are apparently routed to /dev/null, so I come here for help
and all this dirty laundry gets drug out again. And again. And again. While
the question I asked is very carefully ignored. Unreal.
There are a bunch of cups manpages: there are lots of documents online.
The people recommending you avahi/bonjour/zeroconf are recommending it
because it works - for them and for 99.9% of people.
And its both a lockin for apple, and denies the feature the printer
maker puts into his product. And I'm purist enough to object the both.
Your system: your
rules - but it doesn't always help us help you to solve the problems.
You betcha. Which gets my posts the TL;DR treatment just because I do
try to describe things adequately. I can't win for losing.
There are reasons why we ask folk - in general on this list and in the FAQ
- to provide information, to copy/paste log entries or what they're seeing
on screen. We can't sit on your shoulder and watch what you've typed: we're
all relying on guesswork much of the time.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
Back at you Andy, take care & stay well.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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