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    Solved How do I determine the physical location of my USB ports

    Hi osprey, Thanks for your response, probably not the correct method. However, I determined the USB 3.0 by the colour blue and by moving the network card from port to port and checking the relative speeds I was able to single out the 1.1 port and thus the other two 2.0. Given that the 1.1 and...
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    Solved How do I determine the physical location of my USB ports

    How do I determine the physical location of my USB ports Hi everyone, I use the lsusb and my laptop has 4 usb ports from what I have established there are two ports on both sides 1.1 usb port 2.0 usb port 2.0 usb port 3.0 usb port. lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0...
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    Manjaro compression archive for 50GB audio directory

    Hi wendy-lebaron, Firstly, thank you for your very comprehensive response. And I will take your word for it, obviously you know what you're talking about. Most of the files either .MP 3~4 or .FLAC and the level of compression is unimportant. I want to move them to 2 TB external Storage HDD and I...
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    Manjaro compression archive for 50GB audio directory

    Hi everyone, I have a number of audio directories that I need to archive. The level of compression, to me, is not important but speed is, the directories are 50GB or larger. I've used .tar.gz and .tar, .tar was slightly faster, here are a list of Manjaro's default options for compression:-...
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    manjaro xfce touchpad and gestures best configuration?

    What do people using xfce arch or derivatives suggest for touchpad driver and gestures. I found Syngestures and xf86-input-synaptics but although it installs without errors, shows in menu, but will not run. xf86-input-libinput and libinput-gestures are the default and I did get this to work...
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    ssd and sata swap configuration

    Hi guys, I have a dell inspiron 15 laptop with 120gb SSD and 1TB sata. I've got Manjaro linux on the SSD and data on the Sata. I found a how to move $HOME from SSD to sata and it works fine. However, I would like to put the swap on sata. The laptop has 8gb ram and I accepted the default...
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    Manjaro, Acrolinux Cozy AudioBook Reader missing dependencies

    Fist of all @f33dm3bits thanks for your patience. It did run with WARNING: Using existing $srcdir/ tree and WARNING: You should add the boolean check kwarg to the run_command call. It currently defaults to false, but it will default to true in future releases of meson...
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    Manjaro, Acrolinux Cozy AudioBook Reader missing dependencies

    Well Mr @f33dm3bits, I felt like a blind man looking for a needle in a haberdashery shop. Anyway I got yay installed. Now what? 1 cozy-audiobooks-git (Installed) (Build Files Exist) ==> Packages to cleanBuild? ==> [N]one [A]ll [Ab]ort [I]nstalled [No]tInstalled or (1 2 3...
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    Manjaro, Acrolinux Cozy AudioBook Reader missing dependencies

    Thanks, f33dm3bits. What is the correct way to install dependencies?
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    Manjaro, Acrolinux Cozy AudioBook Reader missing dependencies

    Hi, I've been struggling for a couple of days to get Cozy Audibook reading working. Initially I used Pamac from the AUR repo, not working. Then same agian with Pamac the git version. Then I tried git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/cozy.git cd cozy makepkg -si and this is what I got, error...
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    [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Driver ath9k Slow all distros

    Replaced Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Half-size Mini PCIe Card 5 Mbps. Realtek 802.11n USB WiFi 25 Mbps. Some times it is a hardware issue and for a cheap and simple fix, I now have a reasonable internet connection.
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    [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Driver ath9k Slow all distros

    Yes I got the same negative result from Mx linux so I installed Mint to verify the same errors
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    [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Driver ath9k Slow all distros

    System: Kernel: 5.15.0-41-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.2.0 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.23 wm: xfwm dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy Machine: Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: K73TA Mobo: ASUSTeK model: K73TA UEFI: American...
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    [SOLVED] Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Driver ath9k Slow all distros

    Ok my mistake, I neglected to say my wifi is sim card Huawei v E5573 Modem. I also have a HP probook 470 g3 and I get a constant 50 Mb/s download and 35 Mb/s upload. I did follow another forum where the suggestion was to limit the connection to set the band 2.4 GHz, instead of automatic. This...
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