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[Just a quick post to get info in one place, sorry!] Info I have a GPD Pocket: running Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS with a BCM4356 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter (PCI ID 14e4:43ec) with some issues: It appears like only 2.4GHz networks are being detected, and not 5GHz networks. That being said, our router is dual-band and I can’t see either network. Attempting to connect to a random 2.4GHz network crashes the network manager (WiFi icon/settings entry disappears, then reappears after a few seconds). dmesg doesn’t seem to contain anything relevant, apart from maybe: /usr/lib/systemd/system-generators/netplan failed with exit status 1. Connecting a phone over USB and using USB tethering was working fine when this all started, but that seems to have stopped working too now (: Updates Did the country code change and rebooted, now is displaying 5GHz networks (or at least, my network…) — attempting to connect to it still crashes the network manager. Resolution!!! With some prompting by a littlefox, I dug through journalctl -f a bit deeper and found references to stable-ssid being an invalid macaddress for a given network (i.e. a yaml file in /etc/netplan) — at this point I was getting pissed off so I just rm /etc/netplan/*.yaml and retried connecting to a network… which worked. ...

I was trying to build coreutils the other day and kept running into an error with docbooks. I’d initially figured out I was missing the docbook and docbook-xsl packages (fairly obvious given it said it couldn’t find it…), but having installed them, I then got this more cryptic error: failed to load external entity "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" Some searching and trawling through forum posts led me to try installing docbook-xml — this solved the problem. ...

php-ast by nikic exposes the abstract syntax tree generated by PHP 7 and 8 — nikic currently only provides pre-built Windows DLLs up to PHP v8.1, and building it yourself can be a minor hassle. So here’s a collection of pre-built DLLs for PHP 8.0 - 8.2 (ts/nts) https://github.com/theresnotime/php-ast-windows-build/releases/tag/1.0.4

This’ll be a short post, more for my own reference than anything else! When running sudo apt update, I got the following error: Err:8 https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 23E7166788B63E1E Yarn Packaging <[email protected]> [...] W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable InRelease: The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 23E7166788B63E1E Yarn Packaging <[email protected]> W: Failed to fetch https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/dists/stable/InRelease The following signatures were invalid: EXPKEYSIG 23E7166788B63E1E Yarn Packaging <[email protected]> W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Googling this returns a mixture of results and fixes, but the one I’ve found works the majority of the time is: sudo apt-key adv --refresh-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com Running sudo apt update again then works — yay! 🎉

I’d recently been having some issues with my Google Pixel 3XL - I’ve had the phone a while, so it’s fairly common for some little issues to crop up nearing the end of a contract (just as the warranty expires of course..) This however was a bit of a shitty one. The bluetooth and WiFi would suddenly turn off (normally when I’m driving somewhere and relying on the bluetooth for Waze) and just would not turn back on. ...