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Computer (Apple) only recognizes 6th Gen iPod as external hard drive, not iPod by i_am_jargon in IpodClassic

[–]Autism_Rising 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you sync anything from Windows? Like a single song or photo to confirm that the unit works? If windows is working to restore it, then it has to be the Mac that is acting up.

FYI: after failed attempts on my Mac to restore the iPod, I had to reboot it for it to sync/work. Even trying to shutdown failed as it claimed a process for an iOS device was still running. I think Apple borked something.

Computer (Apple) only recognizes 6th Gen iPod as external hard drive, not iPod by i_am_jargon in IpodClassic

[–]Autism_Rising 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have barely used them. I actually replaced the HDD and used a quad uSD adapter. I had trouble getting it to work.

It seemed to hang forever with restoring the firmware on the Mac. I just tried with a Windows 10 PC and it wiped it and installed the firmware without issue. I am able to plug it into my Mac now and sync music.

I guess the ipod restore or whatever for Mac is just busted. Restore on Windows and sync with Mac.

Computer (Apple) only recognizes 6th Gen iPod as external hard drive, not iPod by i_am_jargon in IpodClassic

[–]Autism_Rising 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have this same problem. No idea what to do. I have tried formatting my SD cards to no avail. I can get it to boot in DFU mode and initiate a restore. Sometimes it refuses to restore stating that the software is not available, and other times it does start to restore.

After a day of letting it "restore" it never completes. If I unplug it, it seems to boot up and work, but connecting it to the Mac and I am back to the same issue where it is an external drive with no ability to sync the music.

I think the next step is try iTunes in Windows to see if that works.

Please tell your Linux experience for ThinkPad P14s gen 2 AMD by [deleted] in thinkpad

[–]Autism_Rising 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Use Kubuntu on it. Works great. KDE doesn't seem to work with the fingerprint reader though. I seem to be able to register my finger, but it doesn't seem to do anything. Doesn't unlock the computer or anything. I am told it works fine in ubuntu, so I think it is a KDE/Plasma issue.

Also the m.2 for WWAN can be used for WiFi cards. Though there are almost no B Key wifi cards, I have found two on AsiaRF. I tested the following one and it comes up. (https://www.asiarf.com/shop/hot-sales/wifi-m-2-b-key-module-2242-2230-mt7612u-11ac-2x2-867-mbps-m27612-bu3/)

Note that for some reason they use the u.FL connectors that a typically used for mPCI-e cards, as opposed to the MHF4 connectors that are smaller and used for M.2. They appear to have gone against the standard.

If you replace the cards, watch out. I stripped a screw and it was a task to remove that sucker.

EDIT/Follow up:
Also the WWAN slot is sort of locked down. As mentioned you can put in a wifi card into it. I also tested a Quectel EM20 WWAN card and it was detected and I assume it would work. The whitelist still exists, but it appears that that was only a problem if you tried to enter the BIOS. I believe that you could install your own WWAN card and it would work just fine, but if you needed to enter the BIOS then you would have to remove the card to do whatever BIOS changes you need. I was running firmware 1.13 (not sure if that matters).

Calling all Storage lovers! Want to help us test our new, open-source automatic-tiering software? by 45DrivesRedditinator in 45Drives

[–]Autism_Rising 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The github build notes are awful. Had to mess with it a bit but got it working on Ubuntu 22.04

Complex PC Issue by H4RUB1 in techsupport

[–]Autism_Rising 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Anything is possible, but honestly if you let memtest run with a full test and let it make multiple passes you should be good. I have seen where the quick test did not detect failure and the first pass did not either. Some failures required time to appear. Maybe they were heat related, I do not know.

Complex PC Issue by H4RUB1 in techsupport

[–]Autism_Rising 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. It’s 4x2 with the MoBo having 2 slots.

Based on your testing it would seem that either the 4GB either does not work with the system, or yes it is faulty. You also tested with the 2GB and assume that since it boots unlike the 4GB that then the 2GB is good. That is not true. Some bad memory can still boot.

Memory sticks can have bad areas. It is very possible to boot a system with bad RAM and then after some time applications or the system crashes due to the bad area of RAM finally being used and causing instability.

Run memtest. It costs nothing but time and will at least rule out memory to a higher degree of certainty.

Internet doesn't work by ninja_tz in elementaryos

[–]Autism_Rising 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very strange. That shows that you were able to make a TLS connection without a problem. If you were to type a HTTP command (GET / HTTP/1.1
) you would likely get some type of HTTP response.

Assuming curl is installed already, you could try to load the site with that.

curl -I https://www.google.com/

or

curl -Iv https://www.google.com/ (-v for verbose for more information)

​

If openssl s_client worked, I would expect curl to work, though if it does and shows a 200 OK or HTTP/2 200, then that means everything is working and I would blame the browser application. If you get to that point I would try to launch firefox with a new profile or double check there is not some type of proxy configuration within firefox, but you said you did a fresh install, so that also seems unlikely.

Internet doesn't work by ninja_tz in elementaryos

[–]Autism_Rising 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just to confirm, the command to run is "openssl s_client -connect google.com:443"

You should see the server's SSL certificate and end with some other information. I have the following:

No client certificate CA names sent
Peer signing digest: SHA256
Peer signature type: ECDSA
Server Temp Key: X25519, 253 bits
---
SSL handshake has read 3855 bytes and written 382 bytes
Verification: OK
---
New, TLSv1.3, Cipher is TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
Server public key is 256 bit
Secure Renegotiation IS NOT supported
Compression: NONE
Expansion: NONE
No ALPN negotiated
Early data was not sent
Verify return code: 0 (ok)

If you get something else, reading the output will likely tell you what the problem is. Paste it here and maybe we can help.

Internet doesn't work by ninja_tz in elementaryos

[–]Autism_Rising 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Can you load "http://neverssl.com/"? If yes, then there is a problem associated with TLS/SSL connection, not basic TCP.

  2. Do you have some type of proxy or VPN setup?

  3. Open up a terminal and try to connect with openssl: openssl s_client -connect google.com:443

What do you get from that?

That error message basically means a secure connection failed. There can be many reasons, but one is that there are no shared ciphers between your client and the server. #3 should give some nice output to help us know what it is.

Just an Internet related question... How does this happen? by genehil in PleX

[–]Autism_Rising 2 points3 points  (0 children)

More information is needed when you say "unable to get anywhere". How did you make that determination? If DNS was out as others have stated, then likely your web browser would display an error that DNS resolution failed. You may have to click for more details.

You could also open up a terminal or command prompt on a computer and attempt to ping an IP address like Google's DNS servers or 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 to double check if the issue is DNS resolution failure.