Dec
09
2009
I was surprised ifconfig wouldn’t return an interface for my Atheros chipset based Netgear wireless card. Unlike Redhat, Madwifi does not seem to compile on Ubuntu, no matter what version is used. Kernel headers installed, I keep getting the same error: /root/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.c: In function ‘ieee80211_pwrsave’: /root/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.c:240: error: implicit declaration of function ‘__skb_append’ make[3]: *** [/root/madwifi-0.9.4/net80211/ieee80211_power.o] [...]
Tags: Atheros, driver, linux, madwifi, Netgear, network, ubuntu, WEP, wifi, wireless, WPA
Oct
13
2009
Arrows aren’t used in ksh as a default. To enable command history like in Bash, add the following lines in the .profile or .kshrc file: # Switch to Emacs mode # Only Emacs mode lets you make use of arrow keys set -o emacs # Go back in command history (up arrow) alias __A=’^P’ # [...]
Tags: Aix, ksh, linux, solaris, unix
Sep
28
2009
TCP Offload Engine (or TOE) transfers network processing load, from the CPU (software) to the network controller (hardware). The network card needs to support TOE such as the HP NC382T. This functionnality is disabled after the server installation. Check if TOE is enabled Windows 2003 The activation can only be checked with the [...]
Tags: 2003 server, 2008 server, iSCSI, linux, TCP Offload, TOE, Windows
