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.

I am using LL 3.8 and intend to install 4.0

Etcher is not in the repo, how do I get it? I've never installed anything from outside the repo.

Hello,

this is a photo took in the garden in summer 2017, it is a close up of a white rose, uploaded in case anyone may want to edit it and make an avatar or wallpaper for their LL.

I'am little confused.
Till now I always update all software I have in list when start lite updates and all is ok.
But now have some software I dont want to update but cant chose what to update what not to update, or dont know how to remove some apps from list.

For example:
List of available Updates
1 :  Name: firefox INSTALLED: 62.0.3+build1-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 AVAILABLE: 63.0+build2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2
2 :  Name: teamviewer:i386 INSTALLED: 12.0.137452 AVAILABLE: 14.0.8346

I dont want to update teamviewer to newest because in that case I must buy new license, so I must stay on old version 12.
Pls help

Hello,


I would like to install deb package Pinguy Builder 5.1 and get message telling than "aufs-tools" and "unionfs-fuse" are missing.


Using "system install/remove software" doesn't help.


Any idea and comment welcomed.


Thanks in advance.

Dear All
i update linux via install update after that virtualbox get error on start and run as bellow , How can i solve this ??
Kernal Driver not installed(rc=1908)
vision 5.2.18 r124319
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just remove last kernel update via tweak kernel remover and reboot .problem solved.

Hello everyone,
I am linlitenewbie aka Stephen.  I am 59, a Human Rights Defender and an ordained Christian Minister and Poet and, as my screen name indicates, I am a neophyte when it comes to all things Linux.
I thank you for having this site available to us and look forward to interacting with you all and learning much from you.  I live in San Diego, CA. I am Anglo-Celtic-Native American.  (Tslagi, Cherokee).

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/

I am very new to Linux Lite - I'm learning. When I was trying to update linux lite, something happened, not sure what, and my little asus eee 1000he shut off. i restarted and started the update process again and got this error:

============ Log ===========

E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

When I try to run it, I get an error stating I need superuser privileges. Do I need to sign in as the admin?

Linux Lite updater [lite-updates], upon clicking of the icon in the desktop menu, tells my computer is out of connection to the Internet and thus cannot proceed, which other programs verify untrue, as well as simultaneously I do get prompted about new updates available for the system.