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ssh, xterm terminal, and sh shell
by David Mehler 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Hello, I'm using a router with the merlin firmware on it. It's using a terminal type of xterm, and the shell is sh. I was wondering if anyone had any experience/tips/tricks with ssh-ing to a machine with that combination? Thanks. Dave.

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NVDA with Windows 10 Creative Creating User Accounts
by vic.pereira＠ssc-spc.gc.ca 14 Aug '17

14 Aug '17

Good day everyone I am having issues creating local user accounts when running NVDA as my text to speech program. I think this might be specifically related to NVDA, because when I unload NVDA and call up Narrator I am able to create local user accounts. When running NVDA after selecting add someone to this computer I hear the please wait message then it comes back to the same button. No dialogue comes up to enter the required information. This behaviour has happened on more than one computer running Windows 10. Vic

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Merlin firmware with Samba
by David Mehler 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

Hello, I'm using the latest Merlin firmware on my router. Is anyone using this and using samba? I had the thought that I could make my router internal a lan server as it also has an external USB drive in it, and could use that as a media/storage/backup drive. The issue is the drive is visible to my machine, it's a win10, but not to anything else, got an 8 box, and a Mac, and phones as well as other win10 machines which are not working. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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Merlin firmware with Samba
by David Mehler 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

Hello, I'm using the latest Merlin firmware on my router. Is anyone using this and using samba? I had the thought that I could make my router internal a lan server as it also has an external USB drive in it, and could use that as a media/storage/backup drive. The issue is the drive is visible to my machine, it's a win10, but not to anything else, got an 8 box, and a Mac, and phones as well as other win10 machines which are not working. Any suggestions appreciated. Thanks. Dave.

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fedora
by Ibrahim Mahsoub 13 Aug '17

13 Aug '17

hello do we have a accessible fedora or can i inable screen reader after the boot started in fedora thanks for helping and have a nice day -- ibrahem mahsoub blind computerest

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dd-wrt on Asus RT-N66U
by David Mehler 12 Aug '17

12 Aug '17

Hello, I've got an Asus RT-N66U rev b1 currently running the latest merlin firmware. I'd like to get it going with dd-wrt. I've downloaded the .trx file for dd-wrt, but am unable to get the router in to recovery or rescue mode, the asus rescue utility won't see it, so it's not in recovery. Any suggestions on how to go dd-wrt from merlin? Thanks. Dave.

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Gateway laptop password unlocking
by David Mehler 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Hello, I'm working on a gateway laptop it's NE56 something, it's a newer machine, it's got a 500GB hard drive, 4GB of ram, 64 bit running either windows 8 or 8.1. The original user of it has passed, and the family need in to it to see if there are any files they need/want. I've tried in both CD and USB stick bootable talking windows media nothing has worked. A friend of mine also tried NT offline recovery, that didn't work either. We are not sure why the machine is not booting from non-hard drive media. The bios is set to UEFI, if we set it to legacy then my friend's NT offline recovery disk does boot, but it can not access the partition error code 0 and says the machine is hibernating. I'm suspecting the issue is one of fast startup. Any ideeas? Thanks. Dave.

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Gateway laptop password unlocking
by David Mehler 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Hello, I'm working on a gateway laptop it's NE56 something, it's a newer machine, it's got a 500GB hard drive, 4GB of ram, 64 bit running either windows 8 or 8.1. The original user of it has passed, and the family need in to it to see if there are any files they need/want. I've tried in both CD and USB stick bootable talking windows media nothing has worked. A friend of mine also tried NT offline recovery, that didn't work either. We are not sure why the machine is not booting from non-hard drive media. The bios is set to UEFI, if we set it to legacy then my friend's NT offline recovery disk does boot, but it can not access the partition error code 0 and says the machine is hibernating. I'm suspecting the issue is one of fast startup. Any ideeas? Thanks. Dave.

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dd-wrt on Asus RT-N66U
by David Mehler 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Hello, I've got an Asus RT-N66U rev b1 currently running the latest merlin firmware. I'd like to get it going with dd-wrt. I've downloaded the .trx file for dd-wrt, but am unable to get the router in to recovery or rescue mode, the asus rescue utility won't see it, so it's not in recovery. Any suggestions on how to go dd-wrt from merlin? Thanks. Dave.

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merlin firmware on Asus RT-N66U Rev B1 Router, external storage
by David Mehler 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Hello, I'm running the latest Merlin firmware 3.80.67_0 June 2017 on my Asus RT-N66U rev B1 router. I'm having issues related to the external USB storage. I've got an USB portable hard drive plugged in to it. According to sighted help the drive is showing as unmounted. I've tried both ports same result. This indicator is not reading with a screen reader. It has at least mounted in the past at least where it showed up, yet adding a user to it so that said user would have more than read only access, also was inaccessible with a screen reader. Does anyone use this firmware and have any ideas? Thanks. Dave.

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