Netexpertise

WPA encryption is not much hassle to set up and is way more secure than WEP if you use a strong pre-shared key.   First off, we’ve got a wifi interface that can be displayed with iwconfig (from the wireless tools): [root@db ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. ath0 IEEE 802.11g [...]

Tags: debian, fedora, linux, pre-shared key, redhat, ubuntu, wifi, wireless, WPA, wpa_supplicant

Packard Bell Easynote E6100 Graphic cards aren’t always detected by Linux. This can be a problem as many distributions only support graphic mode installation type, like Ubuntu, Fedora or Debian. This is the case of my Packard Bell Easynote E6100 and its onboard Via Unichrome card freezing on graphic mode startup. One solution is to [...]

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Here’s a package managers basic commands quick reminder/comparative for (in this order) – Linux Debian/Ubuntu, – Linux Redhat/Suse and – Solaris/OpenSolaris.   rpm and dpkg are basic package managers while yum (rpm) and apt-get/aptitude (dpkg) manage dependancies and (online) repositories.   # List ALL installed packages dpkg –list rpm -qa | grep rpm pkginfo   [...]

Tags: apt-get, aptitude, debian, dpkg, linux, manager, package, redhat, rpm, solaris, suse, ubuntu