View Full Version : Anyone interested in Linux how-tos?
lilbudda
07-14-2004, 08:42 PM
Wanna turn that old machine sitting around into a webserver? Or need a cheap firewall router? How about a fileserver for back up? The possibilites are endless but I would to know if there is any interest in the Designtechnica community...
Cory
I wouldnt mind..
But if you are going to use curretn versions, I would like hardware minnimums listed...
I can get all the 486's, I want around here.
sinistar
07-15-2004, 12:52 PM
yes please post up some linux how-tos. :thumb
i think it's a great idea. Ask Ioman to create a new forum for it.
theres, what...4 main versions and 100's of others...??
sinistar
07-15-2004, 09:09 PM
theres, what...4 main versions and 100's of others...??
I wouldn't worry about it too much, ECA.. Just stay at the command prompt!
llbbl
07-15-2004, 10:48 PM
Yea that's a GREAT IDEA !!!
LOVE the command prompt...ONLY does what you TEL IT TO...
God, I miss my amiga....
Linux can be the exact same way. I've been using it for about 7 years now and 95% of it from the terminal only.
llbbl
07-16-2004, 06:13 AM
Linux can be the exact same way. I've been using it for about 7 years now and 95% of it from the terminal only.
I hope we could get enough people who have questions about Linux that we start our own Linux section in the forums. That would be ideal. I think if we can get a popular topic on Linux like we did with spyware than that will draw a lot of people in. :)
as WELL as a section on comparitive Windows to Linux,,,
AND where to get programs for them.
theguy
07-17-2004, 12:54 AM
I need help getting PHLAK 2.1xx to work with my laptop's wireless card. It's based on knoppix or something....... iwconfig really doesn't help......
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/040716/070057.html
News.
llbbl
07-26-2004, 02:36 PM
Is someone going to work on this? We should contact some linux websites / people and see if they are willing to do some freelance work for us =D
openbsd-flipp
08-18-2004, 08:32 PM
I need help getting PHLAK 2.1xx to work with my laptop's wireless card. It's based on knoppix or something....... iwconfig really doesn't help......
First off does a linux driver of your network card exist? If it does is knoppix picking it up as a device? The main problem I have with alot of linux distributions is the simple fact that the precompiled kernels are generly NOT the same source code that is installed as the kernel source package. Case in point. I have a newer toshiba laptop that has a built on wireless card. I 3-way boot my machine based on that days work to be done. Some things can't be done on openbsd, or linux so i am stuck booting to windows. no big deal since there are some times that I am away from the gaming machine and i want to play some doom3. boot into windows and no special configuration necessary.
but my point being is that Suse is the only distribution that reconizes my wireless nic and only if i do not recompille my kernel. no matter what kernel driver i add i still cannot get the system to see that i still have a wi-fi card. (stupid atheros). redhat for the longest time was the only one that would work with my sound card on the old laptop i had. some things work. so do not.
I can attempt to help with this problem if you want.
llbbl
09-01-2004, 06:36 AM
New Linux Section here:
http://forums.designtechnica.com/forumdisplay.php?f=119
Please post some stuff
jer1ch0
10-15-2004, 03:33 PM
Yea, go for it. My old pc is sitting here just waiting to be turned into a fileserver or firewall or cheapo webserver.
spankers
10-16-2004, 05:55 AM
It's not too much of a hurdle to get an old box working as a file/print server... I'm using an old AMD K6 300Mhz box with 96M of RAM to serve approximately 60G of mp3's and assorted documents, and share a laser printer. I'm running Samba for Windows network shares and printing (for my girlfriend's laptop... can't get her to convert as yet, and to stream mp3's to my Audiotron), NFS for Unix/Linux file sharing, and CUPS for printing from Unix/Linux boxes. Works out quite nicely. The only time I reboot is if I build a new kernel. Normally I run it headless (without monitor or keyboard and use SSH to log in/administer the box.
The downside... for some services you have to edit the config files manually unless you run a front end like Webmin (a dedicated webserver for configuring services on a server).
http://www.samba.org/
http://nfs.sourceforge.net/nfs-howto/
http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-doc.html
http://www.webmin.com/
Oh yeah... those 60Gs of mp3's are not the pilfered sort downloaded from the net. It took many, many hours to rip all those CD's.
spankers
10-17-2004, 11:03 AM
... but my point being is that Suse is the only distribution that reconizes my wireless nic and only if i do not recompille my kernel. no matter what kernel driver i add i still cannot get the system to see that i still have a wi-fi card. (stupid atheros). redhat for the longest time was the only one that would work with my sound card on the old laptop i had. some things work. so do not...
Have you tried compiling a kernel (from kernel.org) with Wireless Extensions enabled and then compiling the madwifi driver from cvs?
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/madwifi \
co madwifi
openbsd-flipp
10-18-2004, 04:50 PM
yeah, i have since ditched suse and installed freebsd. I also added an orinoco gold so that i wont have that problem any more.
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