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Great! I just used 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to upgrade to Debian 8.10 and everything works fine. There are lots of widely-publicized vulnerabilities in the old distribution. It is good to be up-to-date. Thanks again for your help.
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I reverted back to the distribution version yesterday. Maybe it will be better to stay with that while you try to have the patch integrated or find another solution and then upgrade using the procedure above only if a better solution isn't found som…
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I reloaded from the Kiwi sd-card distribution with no problem. kiwisdr automatically upgraded to the latest version and the receiver worked normally. I then again used 'apt-get dist-upgrade' to upgrade the old Debian 8 distribution to the December 9…
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I just realized that your dongle probably is plugged directly into the BeagleBone Ethernet port. If so, a Linux internet connection manager called ConnMan probably can be installed or configured, if already installed, to accomplish automatic re-conn…
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Assuming your WLAN is WiFi, check the software supplied with your dongle and you should find an optional selection to automatically connect to available WiFi networks. Even if it is something other than WiFi there probably will be an automatic wirel…
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I had shutdown the OS before reading your reply and ran this the following day after a fresh boot. ================================================ debian@kiwisdr:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 10M 0 …
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Sorry for the slow response. I have had miserable flu-like symptoms the past several days which have made it difficult to keep up with everything. Prior to today I had only accessed the BeagleBone OS command line from the KiwiSDR admin console. Be…
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I did 'apt-get update' first. If I hadn't, nothing would have been changed, because the list of available versions would have been the same as before. 'apt-get upgrade' only upgrades to the latest versions of whatever is already installed. However…
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It is 'do-release-upgrade' that upgrades to a new distribution.
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'dist-upgrade' doesn't upgrade to a new Debian distribution, it installs security upgrades and bug-fixes to the installed distribution.
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That worked!
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Yes, the host name and port specific to my Kiwi returns the corrected name. I will trying powering-down for a few minutes. Thanks for your quick reply. -Bob