From gervin at cableone.net Tue Dec 1 04:01:47 2015 From: gervin at cableone.net (Glenn / Lenny) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:01:47 -0600 Subject: no WIFI in Ubuntu Mate on Banana PI Message-ID: <42CBE065C43444E38E4DDA7A745ED922@LennyAcer5720> Hi, I am running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 on a Banana PI M1, 1GB of RAM. It runs pretty well with Orca. Only one thing so far, it connects via Ethernet cable plugged into the router, but will not connect via WIFI. I have a Belkin USB WIFI dongle, which works in pretty much anything else I have ever used it on. When I go to system, preferences, Internet, and networks, it only shows the LAN. I tried adding the wireless by hand, and I'm sure I got everything in right, but it still will not connect. I go to the terminal and run: iwconfig and it tells me no wireless extensions on all the items it scanned. I hope someone has some ideas to get it going. Thanks. Glenn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From walterorlin at gmail.com Tue Dec 1 07:45:09 2015 From: walterorlin at gmail.com (Brendan Perrine) Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 23:45:09 -0800 Subject: Fwd: no WIFI in Ubuntu Mate on Banana PI In-Reply-To: <42CBE065C43444E38E4DDA7A745ED922@LennyAcer5720> References: <42CBE065C43444E38E4DDA7A745ED922@LennyAcer5720> Message-ID: <565D5005.5070904@gmail.com> I don't think this is technically the correct list for this as this is more about acessibilty bugs in ubuntu. I know you can get user support for ubuntu-mate in #ubuntu-mate on irc in freenode. However I don't orca reads the incoming chat messages to the chanel. And this can be an accessbility problem to provide support. I also looked on lists.ubuntu.com and there was not an ubuntu-mate list there. To solve Glen wifi problem we need to know like the exact chipset of the wifi in you your usb and also helpful would be what arm version the ubuntu-mate is that works and what ubuntu mate you installed. I overheard the rasperi pi image does not come with many kernel modules built in for external stuff so that might be the problem getting wifi working if it does not have the module built for your usb wifi. If you have an accessible ubuntu computer you cannot connect to wifi with if you install the inxi package and run inxi -n you will get the module you need may to build or add to the kernel for say the rasperi pi image unfortanetly but doing something like this may be a good way to get the pi flavor maker to work. -------- Forwarded Message -------- oSubject: no WIFI in Ubuntu Mate on Banana PI Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 22:01:47 -0600 From: Glenn / Lenny Reply-To: Glenn / Lenny Organization: Home To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com Hi, I am running Ubuntu Mate 15.04 on a Banana PI M1, 1GB of RAM. It runs pretty well with Orca. Only one thing so far, it connects via Ethernet cable plugged into the router, but will not connect via WIFI. I have a Belkin USB WIFI dongle, which works in pretty much anything else I have ever used it on. When I go to system, preferences, Internet, and networks, it only shows the LAN. I tried adding the wireless by hand, and I'm sure I got everything in right, but it still will not connect. I go to the terminal and run: iwconfig and it tells me no wireless extensions on all the items it scanned. I hope someone has some ideas to get it going. Thanks. Glenn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From milton at tomaatnet.nl Mon Dec 7 14:10:55 2015 From: milton at tomaatnet.nl (Milton) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 15:10:55 +0100 Subject: {Spam?} Re: blurry view with magnification in Gnome In-Reply-To: <565CBA4E.6020309@member.fsf.org> References: <565B42FB.8030607@tomaatnet.nl> <565BD228.3020600@member.fsf.org> <565C06DF.1010304@tomaatnet.nl> <565CBA4E.6020309@member.fsf.org> Message-ID: <5665936F.8080605@tomaatnet.nl> Hi Alex, Op 30-11-15 om 22:06 schreef Alex ARNAUD: > Can you give me more information about users : > - Are there visual impaired ? Yes, I have a sighted person to test and he found it blurry at the level of one line fits on the screen. So I will have some visually impaired test and wait on their experiences. In ubuntu 15.10 I got gnome-shell 3.16. Will the video card and the screen have something to do with the blurry view? Thanks. Milton > From milton at tomaatnet.nl Mon Dec 7 14:13:01 2015 From: milton at tomaatnet.nl (Milton) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2015 15:13:01 +0100 Subject: blurry view with magnification in Gnome In-Reply-To: <565CBA4E.6020309@member.fsf.org> References: <565B42FB.8030607@tomaatnet.nl> <565BD228.3020600@member.fsf.org> <565C06DF.1010304@tomaatnet.nl> <565CBA4E.6020309@member.fsf.org> Message-ID: <566593ED.8080903@tomaatnet.nl> Hi Alex, Op 30-11-15 om 22:06 schreef Alex ARNAUD: > Can you give me more information about users : > - Are there visual impaired ? Yes, I have a sighted person to test and he found it blurry at the level of one line fits on the screen. So I will have some visually impaired test and wait on their experiences. In ubuntu 15.10 I got gnome-shell 3.16. Will the video card and the screen have something to do with the blurry view? Thanks. Milton From doconnor at sonic.net Sat Dec 12 11:17:34 2015 From: doconnor at sonic.net (doconnor at sonic.net) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 03:17:34 -0800 Subject: Fw: new message Message-ID: <000043166bdc$8d7b96df$5ad0c46b$@sonic.net> Hey! Open message doconnor at sonic.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From alexarnaud at member.fsf.org Sat Dec 12 01:02:06 2015 From: alexarnaud at member.fsf.org (Alex ARNAUD) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 02:02:06 +0100 Subject: {Spam?} Re: blurry view with magnification in Gnome In-Reply-To: <5665936F.8080605@tomaatnet.nl> References: <565B42FB.8030607@tomaatnet.nl> <565BD228.3020600@member.fsf.org> <565C06DF.1010304@tomaatnet.nl> <565CBA4E.6020309@member.fsf.org> <5665936F.8080605@tomaatnet.nl> Message-ID: <566B720E.7020809@member.fsf.org> On 07/12/2015 15:10, Milton wrote: > Yes, I have a sighted person to test and he found it blurry at the > level of one line fits on the screen. So I will have some visually > impaired test and wait on their experiences. > In ubuntu 15.10 I got gnome-shell 3.16. Will the video card and the > screen have something to do with the blurry view? The algorithm used by the magnifier is not perfect zoom so when you increasing size the text and image can be pixelized. If you want to compare with Windows screen magnifier, you can compare with Windows built-in magnifier. ZoomText or some other screen magnifier have advanced algorithm that make the view on the screen very readable even if you zoom at 36 factor. -- Alex ARNAUD From milton at tomaatnet.nl Sat Dec 12 18:36:47 2015 From: milton at tomaatnet.nl (Milton) Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2015 19:36:47 +0100 Subject: blurry view with magnification in Gnome In-Reply-To: <566B720E.7020809@member.fsf.org> References: <565B42FB.8030607@tomaatnet.nl> <565BD228.3020600@member.fsf.org> <565C06DF.1010304@tomaatnet.nl> <565CBA4E.6020309@member.fsf.org> <5665936F.8080605@tomaatnet.nl> <566B720E.7020809@member.fsf.org> Message-ID: <566C693F.20906@tomaatnet.nl> Many thanks for clarification. Milton Op 12-12-15 om 02:02 schreef Alex ARNAUD: > On 07/12/2015 15:10, Milton wrote: >> Yes, I have a sighted person to test and he found it blurry at the >> level of one line fits on the screen. So I will have some visually >> impaired test and wait on their experiences. >> In ubuntu 15.10 I got gnome-shell 3.16. Will the video card and the >> screen have something to do with the blurry view? > The algorithm used by the magnifier is not perfect zoom so when you > increasing size the text and image can be pixelized. If you want to > compare with Windows screen magnifier, you can compare with Windows > built-in magnifier. ZoomText or some other screen magnifier have > advanced algorithm that make the view on the screen very readable even > if you zoom at 36 factor. > From greggay at rogers.com Tue Dec 22 16:17:10 2015 From: greggay at rogers.com (Greg Gay) Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 11:17:10 -0500 Subject: Final Call for Papers W4A2016 Message-ID: <56797786.6080307@rogers.com> *Final Call for Papers W4A2016* W4A2016 April 11-13th 2016 http://w4a.info/ "Education for All on the Web" is the theme for the 13th International Web for All Conference. W4A2016 will be set in Montreal, Canada, co-located with the 25th International World Wide Web Conference. 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Accessible simulations, serious gaming, and role playing on the Web. *Keynotes* Jutta Treviranus, Director of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University Jennison Asuncion, Co-Founder, Global Accessibility Awareness Day *Registration* Register for W4A2016 through the WWW2016 Registration Gateway http://www2016.ca/registration.html *Sponsors* Intuit (http://www.intuit.com/) Google (http://www.google.com/) Canvas (http://www.canvaslms.com) IBM (http://www.ibm.com/) The Paciello Group (http://www.paciellogroup.com/) *Important dates* Midnight PST-8 (HST) Submissions: January 15 Rebuttals: February 5-12 Decisions: February 19 Camera ready: March 3 From gervin at cableone.net Fri Dec 25 23:27:02 2015 From: gervin at cableone.net (Glenn / Lenny) Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 17:27:02 -0600 Subject: Ubuntu Mate 15.10 and WIFI Message-ID: Hi, I just got a NUC PPYH for Xmas, and I installed a CF to SATA converter inside as the HD, and it's got 8GB of RAM. I booted to a live version of Ubuntu on an SD card, and seemed to connect to WIFI successfully, by going into Internet and networking and adding a WIFI connection. But when I tried installing Voxin, it also seemed to go well, but it does not show up in the synth list in Orca. I believe not being connected to the Internet during installation affects whether you get a good install of Voxin. I also did sudo update first, and that seemed to go okay. But when I checked my connection in Internet and networking, it read something like "never connected". I have tried all the key combinations I ever knew of, including some I hadn't to try to get to a panel to find the WIFI, because that seems to be the most reliable way to connect. I did also check FireFox to make sure whether I was connected, and it indicates that I am not. Is there a CLI command I could use to bring up a GUI WIFI interface, or otherwise, another way to get to the panel to find the WIFI? Thanks in advance. Glenn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gervin at cableone.net Sat Dec 26 21:26:19 2015 From: gervin at cableone.net (Glenn / Lenny) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 15:26:19 -0600 Subject: installing an update Message-ID: <0B69DA8BFD494E02B3230CC6BD2AB9EC@LennyAcer5720> Hi, I'm having problems getting my NUC 5PPYH to connect to WIFI. It sort of connects, and then disconnects. I read where updating the WIFI driver with: iwlwifi-7265D-13.ucode will fix the problem. The instructions said only to paste it into: /libs/firmware I did that and rebooted, and it did not help. I ran apt-get update thinking, even though I am not connected to the Internet, that it would update that driver, since I placed it into the firmware folder. Is there something different I need to do to make it use this updated driver? Sounds like updating to the latest Ubuntu kernel 4. something fixes it too, but this computer is not connected to the Internet. I am using Ubuntu Mate 15.10 Desktop. Ultimately I want to install Voxin successfully, which seems to never work unless I'm connected to the Internet, for some needed packages. Thanks for any help. Glenn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From burt1iband at gmail.com Sun Dec 27 00:28:53 2015 From: burt1iband at gmail.com (B. Henry) Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 18:28:53 -0600 Subject: installing an update In-Reply-To: <0B69DA8BFD494E02B3230CC6BD2AB9EC@LennyAcer5720> References: <0B69DA8BFD494E02B3230CC6BD2AB9EC@LennyAcer5720> Message-ID: <20151227002853.GK11388@gmail.com> A couple odf things: your apt-get update command would have to be run as root, e.g. with sudo to work, and would have to be connected to the internet unless you had new software sources on a local network or locall attched disk and had that local repository refferenced in your sources lists. I'll assume you've not done anything like that, you'd sure know it and know that what you'd done with the update command would do nothing if you had ...smile Also apt-get update only updates the list of available packages, it does not actually download or install anything. You'd have to run something like sudo apt-get upgrade to get new software versions installed on to your machine. That command would not update to a new major kernel version either. It would do something like update kernel you boot in to from 3.19.4 to 3.19.6. If updating the kernel is supposed to have an effect in your case, i.e. support for your device has been made possible with something added in the kernel, you need to update to a new kernel, one that would change its first and or 2nd number, e.g. 3.20.1, 4.2.1, 4.2.1, etc. Actuall ubuntu kernels will have a few words in their names. You should update the headers when you update a kernel as well. The article that told you how to install the driver should have told you the exact name of the new kernel. You will of course need an internet connection to do this. You are using the internet to write this, so obviously you have access. If the computer in question can not connect for some reason you can not fix then you will need to copy the stuff you need to update to the machine that does not connect from one that does. If both machines are not running the exact same distro and release then you will have to manuallly download the kernel yu need and install it after copying it to the machine that does not connect. You'll have to investigate to make sure there are no dependency issues that will be caused by updating the kernel, so it'd really be easier to get that computer connecting so that apt-get can do the research for you as well as the installation. The onlyl other thing you might needto do is modify permissions for the driver you copied in to place. -- B.H. Registerd Linux User 521886 Glenn / Lenny wrote: Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 03:26:19PM -0600 > Hi, > I'm having problems getting my NUC 5PPYH to connect to WIFI. > It sort of connects, and then disconnects. > I read where updating the WIFI driver with: > iwlwifi-7265D-13.ucode > will fix the problem. > The instructions said only to paste it into: > /libs/firmware > I did that and rebooted, and it did not help. > I ran apt-get update > thinking, even though I am not connected to the Internet, that it would > update that driver, since I placed it into the firmware folder. > Is there something different I need to do to make it use this updated > driver? > Sounds like updating to the latest Ubuntu kernel 4. something fixes it > too, but this computer is not connected to the Internet. > I am using Ubuntu Mate 15.10 Desktop. > Ultimately I want to install Voxin successfully, which seems to never work > unless I'm connected to the Internet, for some needed packages. > Thanks for any help. > Glenn > -- > Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list > Ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility From glennervin at cableone.net Fri Dec 11 20:45:46 2015 From: glennervin at cableone.net (Glenn) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:45:46 -0000 Subject: WIFI on Mate 15.10 Message-ID: Hi, I am about to install Voxin onto my USB Live version of Ubuntu Mate. I seem to have this problem often with Ubuntu. I cannot get to the WIFI in the panel. When I go to Internet and networks, there is only Ethernet and wired. If I go into the installer, which I am not wanting to do, it can bring up the WIFI, and gives me an opportunity to log into my network. Isn't there some CLI command that I can run to bring up a wireless window? I really don't want to edit a .conf file and all that, It's partially because of all that that I prefer a GUI in Linux. When I can get to it, a GUI WIFI connection works well. Thanks for any help. Glenn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: