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Mar 06 2021

Why Ansible Upgrades Packages on Hold and How to Fix it

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I was writing a new Ansible role to upgrade all of my VMs with apt update and apt upgrade. I was still using an old Rancher that only works with docker-ce package up to version 18.06. A first task holds back the package with Ansible Dpkg module, basically an apt hold, as recommended on many […]

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Dec 19 2009

Redhat/Ubuntu/Debian Bridge Interface Startup Scripts

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All systems need bridge-utils package installed either with yum or apt-get.  Redhat / Fedora Edit each network interface startup file that is going to be added to the bridge  And create the bridge configuration file Ubuntu Debian

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Dec 09 2009

Atheros Wireless Interface on Linux Ubuntu

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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] […]

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Sep 04 2009

Configure WPA on Linux Howto

Published by under Linux,Security

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 […]

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Feb 27 2009

Linux Graphic Mode Installation Crash

Published by under Linux,Misc

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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