All good!

[sbooder]

Hi all,
I am new here, but not new to Linux. My first post was intended to be a positive one...And it still is.

So far, most things have just worked out of the box ( I am having a little trouble installing kindle (through Wine) but I believe that to be generic in all distros?...32bit problem.).

The one thing that cheered me up was how my Anker 2 Bluetooth speaker just connected straight away. I have tried three other flavours and I could not connect with them at all.

Tonight I tried to connect to my VDSL through a Ethernet but it did not work.

I tried loads of advice from several forums, but to no avail.

So I remembered the words of my father in law (an electrical engineer), 'start at the beginning'. So I did, when a light fails, after you check the bulb (an all is OK), you then check the fuse in the plug (UK). So I went and changed the Ethernet slot on the router...D'oh!, it now works perfectly.

Cheers,
Simon.

[motoryzen]

Congrats on it ending up being a reasonably simple solution. I've encounter a bad port on routers only occasionally throughout the years, but it does happen eventually.

[AndyMH]

Last time I had kindle working reliably was LM18. I've given up trying to fix it (run it under crossover) - sometimes it works, more often it crashes.

+1 on Anker, great little speakers. Did have them via bluetooth, but now plugged into the sound out jack on my monitor which is connected HDMI to the laptop.

Also an electrical engineer. You forgot the most important part of 'start at the beginning' - turn the power off first. The times I've not done that I've regretted it (painfully).

[mikeflan]

I am having a little trouble installing kindle (through Wine) but I believe that to be generic in all distros?...32bit problem.

I was going to suggest using Play-On-Linux - especially for 32 bit - but if others are having problems that is not likely to work.

[sbooder]

Last time I had kindle working reliably was LM18. I've given up trying to fix it (run it under crossover) - sometimes it works, more often it crashes.

+1 on Anker, great little speakers. Did have them via bluetooth, but now plugged into the sound out jack on my monitor which is connected HDMI to the laptop.

Also an electrical engineer. You forgot the most important part of 'start at the beginning' - turn the power off first. The times I've not done that I've regretted it (painfully).

You're quite right, 'turn off power'.

My brother in law, tried to go one better than the Anker, so he bought a Bose at about 4x the cost. We got them together to compare, let me put it this way, he was none too pleased.

[lewtwo]

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So far, most things have just worked out of the box ( I am having a little trouble installing kindle (through Wine) but I believe that to be generic in all distros?...32bit problem.).
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Cheers,
Simon.

Bonjour,
I was wondering if you had made any progress on that.
Did you see the information at the URL
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=39700

I have a HP tablet with with Linux Mint 20.1 installed.
If I can not get Kindle to run on it then I will have to reinstall Windows 10.

[sbooder]

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So far, most things have just worked out of the box ( I am having a little trouble installing kindle (through Wine) but I believe that to be generic in all distros?...32bit problem.).
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Cheers,
Simon.

Bonjour,
I was wondering if you had made any progress on that.
Did you see the information at the URL
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager. ... &iId=39700

I have a HP tablet with with Linux Mint 20.1 installed.
If I can not get Kindle to run on it then I will have to reinstall Windows 10.

Nope. I managed to find a free pdf (and legal ) version of the book I wanted, and am happy to carry on with kindle on my very old 1st gen iPad.

[Termy]

A solid, positive post. And solid advice by your FIL; it translates well to troubleshooting on computers, especially in something like Linux.