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[Wiki] Authors: Ralphy mentioned Twice.

Sat, 07 Feb 2026 14:09:12 +0800

https://wiki.linuxliteos.com/en/home

I've gladly wave with both hands simultaneously, but I wanted to make sure two Ralphys exist before letting loose.

-Cloppix
-Cloppix

updated x11vnc ssh tunnel Remmina connections

Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:28:51 +0800

Went through these connections again for LL6 W11.
https://dbts-analytics.com/llvncrem1.html
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Using XRDP RDP and Samba Linux Lite 6 Windows 10/11

Sat, 11 Feb 2023 06:38:34 +0800

I've gotten around to discussing these protocols with newer systems now and I hope this will be of help to some new Linux Lite users.
https://dbts-analytics.com/smbxrdp.html
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Transfer Files Between Linux Lite Hyper-v Guest Windows 10/11 Host

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 03:58:24 +0800

Linux cross platform networking... simple fast free methods.
https://www.dbts-analytics.com/fltrhypvopt.html
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how to hide grub menu when dual booting with windows

Thu, 16 Apr 2020 21:32:58 +0800

i have dual booting windows and linux lite using mrbooter. sometime, i just open windows from grub menu and when booting again from mrbooter then choose linux and... boom!!! i get error with grub > prompt

now i can hide grub menu and choose (do not looking for another system) in grub.
to solve this, i using grub-customizer

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:danielrichter2007/grub-customizer
sudo apt update
sudo apt install grub-customizer

after installed, you can click menu from the left-bottom, and type grub customizer....

goodluck

RTL8812AU Driver

Sat, 16 Nov 2019 07:14:29 +0800

I hope this is the correct place to put this information - I'm new here and I'm also very old so there's that too.

Anyway - I've had a lot of trouble getting one of my favorite WiFi dongles to run in most any Linux distro. Now that I'm back in Ubuntu - I found a few command lines that work (worked, actually) here.

I have an Alfa unit, but I reserve that for my Raspberry Pi.

Anyway -I had to go to ARCH and kinda co-mingle some code, but it works even if it's not pretty. This is a mashup of Ubuntu-slash-Ubuntu Budgie that in and of themselves, didn't have the answer I needed.

Inside an ARCH wiki, I found several lines of code - none of them actually worked either but they gave me a hint of where it was I needed to go.

Since ARCH is a lot like Linux but just another branch, I suspected that the repositories that Budgie suggested were wrong. They said "sysfrank" was correct. It is not.

Here goes:

Code:
sudo apt install dkms

git clone htps://github.com/zebulon2/rtl8812au.git

cd ./rtl8812au

sudo ./dkms-install.sh

Some of these lines may get a notice that it is already installed, and/or is the latest version and is ignored. You should ignore any of those and just keep plodding along entering each line and hitting ENTER after each one. I know that's messy, but I don't assume that anything I need is pre-installed so I just try to force it in again.

Plug in your dongle* and it should be working without a reboot - but if not, just reboot anyway.

* I'm not sure what a 'dongle' qualifies as since mine doesn't dongle, dingle or droop. It's a USB stick-thingy with an antenna. Your results may vary.

What to do when your computer just die and won't boot anymore

Sun, 09 Jun 2019 17:06:15 +0800

Tips colored blue are for mobile users only Tips colored green are for desktop users only
Tips colored black are for for all computer users Tips with red "!"requires special knowledge

If it won't boot at all

1. Check the power cable. Your laptop's battery charging indicator light should turn on. If you are pc user try another power cable
2. Check the battery. Your laptop's battery charging indicator light should change color or power off when the battery is and if it never reaches full then it is dead or for some reason got short circuit.
3. Remove battery and power cable then try to boot without any power source to make any capacitors discharged then connect battery and power cable back and try to boot.
4. Take your RAM memory off the place it back you found better tutorial by googling your model and memory replace!
5. If your computer still won't boot to at least BIOS I don't know what to do

I will post other fixes also later

LL test of keyboard and mouse combo

Fri, 12 Apr 2019 21:38:11 +0800

Hello,

the Raspberry Pi Official Keyboard and Mouse combo was delivered on its day of release at 7am, and I had hoped to put the first review of it online (here on the forum), but I was away at the time, since returning I have been catching up on things, and was away again, so have only had a chance to test this today.

In the box is -
the keyboard
a mouse (in its own box)
a cable to connect the keyboard to USB 2 of computer

The keyboard keys are a little bigger, with larger letters on them. It also has the accessibility raised lines on the F and J keys.
The keyboard is white on the top with red highlights on the following keys , FN key, Page up, Page down, Home, and End, F1 (being F11 highlight), F2 (being F12 highlight), F10 (being scroll lock highlight), Print Screen (being SysRq highlight).
There are no Windows keys, it has a left Raspberry Icon key.
The underneath and sides of the keyboard are red.
On the back of the keyboard are 3 USB ports and 1 micro port.
A Raspberry Pi Logo is etched in to the underneath of the keyboard.
Size wise the keyboard is approximately 28.6cm x 12.2cm, depth is 6mm til 20mm (at back).

The mouse is white on the top with a red scroll wheel, its cable to usb 2 is red and the underneath of the mouse is also red. It has a scroll wheel and 2 mouse buttons.

The micro to USB 2 cable included is red.

In use -
the mouse can be plugged in to a usb 2 port on your computer.
The keyboard can be plugged in to a usb 2 port on your computer.

Or

The mouse can be plugged in to any 1 of the 3 USB 2 ports on the back of the keyboard and the keyboard plugged in to the computer using the included cable from the micro port.
In this configuration you only need 1 USB 2 port on your computer for a mouse and keyboard.

I have tested this combo set-up on Linux Lite and it works as Plug and Play.
Clicking the Raspberry icon on the keyboard opens the Linux Lite Menu.
All keyboard keys and mouse functions - right button, left button and scrolling work as expected on Linux Lite.
Whilst set up in this configuration I also plugged-in 2 usb sticks to the rear of the keyboard both mounted correctly on Linux Lite.
On these I tested opening various file types, including 58 minute duration mp3's played with vlc.
Unmounting and ejecting the usb sticks on the keyboard also works as usual on Linux Lite.

Potential Uses -
It will be useful if you need a small sized keyboard.
If you need a keyboard with large letters and keys.
If you are short of USB ports it combines the keyboard and mouse so they use only 1 port on your computer.
It gives you 2 extra USB 2 ports to use, when using the mouse, or 3 extra when not using the mouse.
It allows you to plug the usb stick in to the keyboard (and computer) whilst still looking at the screen.
It has potential for using mobile.
It also has potential for using the keyboard mouse combo with a LIVE LL usb plugged in to the back of the keyboard, still allowing space for a USB stick to save across data before installing the new OS.

Reply with any additional ways you found the combo useful with LL.

RTL-SDR free book

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 04:05:37 +0800

Hello,

here is the Free download link for the book - The Hobbyists Guide to RTL-SDR.

https://www.surviveuk.com/wp-content/upl...Laufer.pdf

The book looks interesting, the driver install doesn't cover Linux, the guide for this is here -

https://ranous.wordpress.com/rtl-sdr4linux/

Unbranded Hi Power N adapter

Wed, 31 Oct 2018 20:44:55 +0800

Hello,

this arrived on Monday (it is Wednesday here) it is sold unbranded, its title on eBay was 3000mW Wireless USB network card, it costs £7.63 and Free postage.
This arrives in a box, it is not the outer box for the adapter, on the reverse of the box the vendor simply put a S shaped line through the specs.The inner shell of the box fits the supplied items correctly.
Contained in the box is the wifi adapter, x2 of 5dBi antennas, the connection cable from the box to the USB port, it also contains the pink version of the Beini mini disc (based on Tiny Core Linux it says), and the how to crack your poor neighbour's wifi photo tutorial, pink version, not that we would do this , just stating the boxes contents.

The adapter is black a sort of towards graphite shade, it is not high gloss but neither is it matt finish, on the adapter it says High Power and the N wifi logo. Its activity LED is blue coloured.
It is made in PRC (mainland China).
It uses the 3070 chipset and is plug and play in LL.
Tested as usual using LinSSID.

This adapter found 56 AP's using the 5 dBi antennas it came with. (it uses 2 antennas)
Surprisingly it found Anna's Hotspot, as this was only previously seen using the Alfa AWUS036h with a Yagi (directional) antenna, and also with the Linfox adapter using a 58dBi cannon (directional) antenna.
It also found the desktop of a "coven", hopefully they won't Hex me (see what I did there )
It also found x4 of public access free wifi hotspots, 2 of these I had found before, 2 are newly found ones.

Other newly found ones were (in order of discovery) -
Gemmas Hot-spot
mywifi - eg; my documents, mypictures, mywifi , I am guessing it is a windows machine, or pretending to be one.
It also found the first WEP in these recent tests.
A new connected cam.
It found 3 new car items -
a dv camera
the second Audi found, this time its MMI system.
https://www.carwow.co.uk/guides/glossary...i-mmi-0557

an Auto Vox camera D6 Pro
http://www.auto-vox.com/index.php/Produc...id/29.html

It does monitor mode -

I test 1 more wifi adapter for Linux, and 1 more GPS dongle, when/if they arrive. This recent series of tests I am doing will be finished then.
I hope it was interesting for someone, and helped you know of some different wifi hardware that does work on LL, and doesn't work on LL.

Nexx WT3020H (the other dropbox)

Sat, 27 Oct 2018 04:14:41 +0800

Hello,

also arrived today is (my highly excited order) the Nexx WT3020H, it cost £9.98 and free postage.

This is claimed to be the Worlds smallest router. It is tiny, 2 will fit on top of a Raspberry Pi 3.
It is OpenWRT compliant/supported.

It comes with a booklet showing diagrams of a variety of ways to connect it up and use it.
Also in the packet is the router and the power lead to usb.

It has 2 ethernet connections(WAN/LAN), power socket, USB port, and built in Wifi.

Example - I plugged from the router through this then used the second port to a desktop, and connected the power to mains supply via a usb to socket adapter. It worked fine but it can do much more.

Another use and my reason for buying this is as a drop box. (example uses of a dropbox are shown on Mr.Robot)

This is where you attach it like above on to someones (my own) network, you can then access that network using the wifi inside this little router.
You can also connect using SSH.<< which is what I want to practice using a raspberry pi's as I am just learning ssh (from The Linux Command Line book) so it would be silly to make my desktop into a ssh server.

The USB port can hold a USB flash drive to store packets you sniff/capture from the network traffic. Which you then access via the wifi.

Another way I have seen was to connect it to a raspberry pi and using Kali Linux, this way you can also do a wide range of other things, which I may as well learn too, after having bought it and with all the setting up I'll have to do for it etc

If you order one make sure it is the H at the end of the model name as the other models are 3G or 4G and need a sim card inserted in them, the H model does not use a sim card.
It looks a bit difficult to set up, but also looks like it can be a fun device to learn some things about networks.
I hope it was interesting, or useful for someone.

Blueway N9000

Sat, 27 Oct 2018 02:41:45 +0800

Hello,
another one tested today, this costs £7.20 and free postage on eBay.
In the box, comes the adapter, a small omni directional antenna, a mini disc of Beini (Tiny Core Linux it says, but we have LL) , this cd is different metallic green with pink love hearts on it, and pink baby bottle caps, this is obviously the baby-girl version and the manual of cracking that poor neighbours wifi again, but this time it has baby pink surroundings and dividers.For customs purposes it was described as a "reservoir" (for storing the Ap's).
There is a newer model of this but it wasn't too different and this was cheaper.
Looks wise, it is like 100%+ better build than any other wifi adapter I have, the top doesn't flex it is slimline but you can see it is thick acrylic, the top and base are high gloss black, the sides are red.It has an integrated spring clip on its back already fitted. This could clip on to say the curtains, car visor, or a bag.
This is Made in China.
It was tested on the desk using LinSSID.
It finds with its default antenna 11 Ap's, it's not bad as its an obviously weak antenna, and likely how the costs have been cut.I thought, dont worry baby I know you have power, dropped the 16dBi omni and he jumped to 31 Ap's almost instantly, and his blue led danced away, its got a blue led that's not blinding as the black cover has no cut out for it so it subdues its intensity nicely.

I have not yet tried it with the Cannon antenna (the 58dBi directional from the Linfox thread, I discovered its name online)

I definitely like this one because of its very solid case build, its got some red highlights which is always nice (to me), the integral rear clip means it can handle the long 16dBi on its small form factor due to the clip tilting the adapter off the desk.

This like the Linfox adapter is also 3070 chipset.
This is plug and play on LL.

and.... yes it can do Monitor Mode

I hope it was useful for someone.

Linfox wifi adapter combo

Fri, 26 Oct 2018 03:49:35 +0800

Hello,

this arrived today and I've just finished testing it.
This is sold on eBay for £9.99 (with free postage), it had a nice looking directional antenna that was not for sale on ebay on its own, I bought the kit for the antenna but was surprised by it.
Its images on eBay and listing use no branding, it arrives with the adapter branded as Linfox.
In the package are, the antenna, a lead coming from this to attach to the adapter, a lead from the adapter to USB , and a mini disc of Beini (based on Tiny Core Linux, it says), there is also a "manual" of 1 page showing you in photos of screenshots, how to crack your neighbours wifi using the set up, not that any of the members and guests would do those kind of things, I'm just stating what is in the package. It is in a bag, it is not boxed.

So this antenna is claimed to be 58dBi, and they claim the set up can reach 3km :o I did not believe this even before buying it.
The antenna looks nice, from the end view it is a half circle shape, it is 20cm in length, it is attached underneath to a rod, this goes to a stand, underneath the stand are two slots, it comes with rubber suction cups to put in to those slots, the slots could also be used for mounting with screws.The outer casing is all plastic the underneath of the antenna bar is all metal, the base is also metal inside and on the parts visible for attaching to a wall or window.

It can also be stood on the desk (or floor) which is what I did.I tried this out using the little stand on the desk, you can set the antenna to vertical, or angles throughout until 180 degrees, I set it at approximately 45 degrees. It stays in the angle you set it.

The adapter uses a 3070 driver and is plug and play on Linux Lite.
Just attach the antenna cable and usb cable and plug it in and you are off.

As with the other recent tests, and the first tests on other set ups a long time ago, I used LinSSID on LL just from the desk.

The Alfa adapter similar to this one AWUS036h has a grey/silver box, the Linfox has a Gold box, both are manufactured in Taiwan.

:o This reaches as far as an AWUS036h with a Yagi antenna, and the antenna it comes with is physically about 70% or more smaller than the Yagi is.
It found a total of 49 AP's.
Including an Audi car, one Android phone, one Mi tv box, 3 public wifi hotspots, 2 of these are inside venues (bars).

I estimate it can reach from the desk at least more than 1 mile, as it finds a specific hotel, and I measured the distance to this when the Yagi /AWUS036h found it.
This is it goes through a forest and lots of buildings, to reach that 1 miles away.
On open ground or if used from an elevated position it may do longer distances, I am not sure.
It didn't find Henry's security cameras, like the Alfa 36NEH did, but it found Annas Hotspot and her 54 cams, must be like really nervous person, like the Yagi/AWUS036h did.

In vertical, horizontal or angled antenna mode this easily fits inside a small backpack set up.

and..... it can do monitor mode -

I hope it was interesting for someone.

Tutorial - GlobalSat G-Star IV (SIRF Star IV)

Wed, 24 Oct 2018 09:21:19 +0800

Hello,

you seen it here first, this is the first working tutorial for the latest version of this USB GPS dongle, on LL3 series.
The last working version of a tutorial for an earlier model of this was on Ubuntu 11. YouTube is full of requests for a tutorial for this for Ubuntu 16.04, so if you like to make tutorial videos this tutorial could be a good choice for a lot of views to your channel. Don't forget to point them all to Linux Lite.
If anyone using LL 4 series wants to try the tutorial and see if it works or needs tweaking slightly for a LL 4 series tutorial feel free to post that in a separate thread to save any confusion.

There are not many tutorials about this, most work partially, such as to install the drivers or the commands to run it using the terminal, we will be using Install/Remove Software.
Most either do not cover using maps, or recommend no longer available software, non free software, or software no longer worked on/updated.
A popular use with this dongle in tutorials seems to be Google Earth, in this tutorial we will instead be setting up and using FoxtrotGPS, a free and Open Source GPS software. (FOSS)

Some solutions for making it run are long, they don't work now as they were wrote a long time ago, for earlier version of distros, so they are outdated for a modern OS like LL.
Trying to merge these things did not work either.

To make this tutorial I used parts of some peoples tutorials, parts of unrelated tutorials, parts of my own choice by looking around, trial and error.

Menu>System>Install/Remove Software (Synaptic)

Search for and install -

gpsd

gpsd-clients (tick to install additionals, Python tools)

FoxtrotGPS

Further info on using FoxtrotGPS (the friendly FOSS GPS) features can be found on their website -

https://www.foxtrotgps.org/

Plug in your GlobalSat to your USB port.

First we need to determine which USB port it uses by typing in terminal -

Code:
ls /dev/ttyUSB*

replace /dev/ttyUSB0 in the below command, with the output of "ls /dev/ttyUSB*" command above.

Code:
sudo killall gpsd; sudo gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0 -F -b /var/run/gpsd.sock

NOTES:
This part of the tutorial by editing the file in the below section was wrote for GARMIN GPS, I used it as a guide on how to edit the file, so this edit will also help with GARMIN GPS, the GARMIN GPS tutorial has 1 additional line at the end of the file in case you are using a GARMIN this additional line of code is -

Code:
GPSD_SOCKET="/var/run/gpsd.sock"

This does not seem to be needed to run the GlobalSat G-Star IV, so I removed it from the file edit, as we use it in the command in terminal instead. Some people may need to add it.

File to edit -

Browse to /etc/default/ directory.

Right click the gpsd file and Open as Administrator.

Change the file so it reads as below, but ensure that you replace /dev/ttyUSB0 in the below line named DEVICES, with the output of "ls /dev/ttyUSB*" command above be careful not to accidentally delete the " "

File example -

Code:
# Default settings for the gpsd init script and the hotplug wrapper.

# Start the gpsd daemon automatically at boot time

START_DAEMON="true"

# Use USB hotplugging to add new USB devices automatically to the daemon

USBAUTO="true"

# Devices gpsd should collect to at boot time.

# They need to be read/writeable, either by user gpsd or the group dialout.

DEVICES="/dev/ttyUSB0"

# Other options you want to pass to gpsd

GPSD_OPTIONS="-G"

Save the gpsd file.

In terminal type - ensuring that you replace /dev/ttyUSB0 in the below command, with the output of "ls /dev/ttyUSB*" command above.

Code:
sudo killall gpsd; sudo gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0 -F -b /var/run/gpsd.sock

To try it out -

type in terminal -

Code:
cgps

Code:
gpsmon

Code:
xgps

The first gives you a GUI inside the terminal, with the data organized tidily.
The second gives you a batch of data, like a wall of text and numbers.
The third one gives you a seperate GUI with the SkyView of the satellites it is locking on to.

All have various options but I don't understand them yet and need to learn about it.
To escape #1 or #2 I used Hold down CTRL and press C to go back to the terminal prompt, for #3 the gui has menus and also an X to close it on the title bar.

To use with maps I do this -

Plug in the GPS dongle to the USB.

Open terminal and type -

Code:
sudo killall gpsd; sudo gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0 -F -b /var/run/gpsd.sock

I then type in to terminal

Code:
cgps

I wait about 2 seconds until I see the numbers running in the terminal, with the terminal open, I then use

Menu>Accessories>FoxtrotGPS

This loads FoxtrotGPS with the maps and current locations as you travel around.

You can for example store "places of interest" on the maps.

If it does not begin I run again -

Code:
sudo killall gpsd; sudo gpsd /dev/ttyUSB0 -F -b /var/run/gpsd.sock

then

Code:
cgps

Hope it is useful for someone else and saves you a lot of time.

Alfa Network AWUS036NEH

Fri, 19 Oct 2018 06:16:20 +0800

Hello,

this arrived today and I just wanted to share about it.
This is Plug and Play straight out of the box with Linux Lite.
It is a regular sized dongle for 2.4Ghz b/g/n, WEP, WPA, WPA2, Cisco compatible. RT3070L Chipset.
It comes with an external RP-SMA dipole antenna of 5dBi, it is 1000mW/30dBm.
It claims to be "the strongest of its type on the market".
This is the strongest wifi adapter I have used with its default antenna.

This dongle supports monitor mode and packet injection.

Its antenna is removable/interchangeable.

In use this dongle finds 12 AP's in about 2 seconds, 1 extra in another 5 seconds, 1 extra 10 seconds later.
It finds of the 14, 13 AP's, 1 security cam.
This is good as in the same location and using the same set up, with my new AWUS036ACH which has 2 antennas I only found 4 Ap's and all 4 had much lower signal strength than with this dongle.
In addition to the LinSSID scans, I also browsed and searched online for a while with it, and it works well.

Hope it is useful info