Re: [orca-list] Adding Gnome to Raspberry Pi

["Martin McCormick" <martin m suddenlink net>]

        Thanks very much for your explanation.  The newest Pi I
have is a Raspberry Pi 2 which uses the Armv7L.  As it turns out, I
was able to do what I needed to do without any GUI after all.  I
wanted to sniff our WiFi network here at home and track down our
WiFi thermostat to see what IP address it had gotten and how much
traffic there is between it and the server it talks to.

        It turns out that the best application for doing this is
wireshark which is a GUI application that lots of people use to
monitor their network.

        I found out that there is a text-based application called
tshark that is part of wireshark and it does the kind of thing I
was needing all along.

        It announces every packet that appears on your network
and gives the IP address it came from as well as the IP address
it is going to as well as an interpretation of what kind of
packet it is when possible.

        If you see packets from a ssh session, they are
identified by starting and destination addresses plus a
description of the packet as encrypted.

        Packets for ntp are identified as ntp Version whatever.

        I found our new thermostat and like the fact I can move
the Raspberry Pi to different locations if necessary and save a
file of the different packets.

        If I get a Pi 3, I will look in to installing mate for
that Pi but not try to run it on these older Raspberry Pi's.

        There are still a zillion things these Pi's can do so it
all worked out okay.

        One thing I did read that is a bit concerning is that
mate does not default to having a ssh server available.  When I
have setup raspberry Pi's in the past, I was able to boot the new
image and ssh in to it with a command line to finish the setup.

        If one needs speech to set it up, how do you get it to
talk early on in the process?

Martin McCormick

Kyle via orca-list <orca-list gnome org> writes:
> Is it possible to use MATE? MATE is much lighter and faster than GNOME, 
> and anything that you need that is part of GNOME will be pulled in by the 
> package management automatically. You do need Orca, but it works pretty 
> well if you're using the RPi 3B+. Older versions won't be as snappy, but 
> MATE does work on them.
> Imetumwa kutoka siku
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