Debian Configuration :: What To Reinstall To Setup Wireless
Feb 27, 2011
I'm new here, I hope someone can help me get wireless working on my laptop. This is a Toshiba Satellite Pro C650-EZ1533 (Intel Core i3). The Toshiba site says it has "Atheros Wireless networking (802.11b/g/n)", but does not identify the hardware more specifically.
I installed Debian 6.0 from a netinstall disc, the version including nonfree hardware drivers. In the software selection I went with the defaults: only "Desktop environment", "Laptop" and "Basic system".
Now the GUI looks nice and behaves OK, and the audio, video, ethernet, and optical drive are working. However, I don't know how to configure wireless. It's probably my fault. I was installing and uninstalling file managers, trying to find one I would like better than Nautilus. When I went to uninstall one of them, a message in the package manager recommended using a command like "auto remove" or similar (I did not record it exactly). My understanding at the time was that this would only remove things that were installed because of dependencies but were no longer needed. However, *a lot* of things disappeard from the menus.
Now the only thing about networking in the menus is something about setting up a proxy. There should be some sort of network manager, right? Or an icon on the taskbar, maybe? But I don't know what package to install.
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Jul 10, 2015
I use Debian Stretch and I've installed it twice with the same ISO on the same laptop. First just to test a few things, then freshly installed it again.
The first time the wireless card was named wlan0 (as always for me, I've never had another name), the second time though it was suddenly named wlp3s0.
How did this occur and may I change it back to wlan0?
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Apr 20, 2010
I managed to break my video4linux module rendering all my video devices useless, can anyone tell me how to reinstall it as per the the one on Lenny. I'm looking for the original one and not v4l2.
2.6.26-2-686 I have a presentation to do tonight and need it working for that.
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Apr 23, 2010
I'm running lenny 2.6.26-2-686 and have accidently lost some of my kernel modules is it possible (and painless) to reinstall this kernel? if I do what data will I loose? will it effect my raid1 setup?
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Nov 6, 2015
I use Jessie, with the Aptitude curses interface for package management. It seems that every time I successfully uninstall/purge a package (along with its dependencies), then the next time I try to install/uninstall anything else it wants to reinstall that package (and its dependencies). It takes several (I haven't counted) "don't install" instructions from me before it will forget about it.
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Aug 3, 2010
I run a Squid 3 server that is acting as a web filter. It worked fine on Etch. The system stopped working properly due to two of the three SATA cables being bad. Before I figured that out, I tried doing updates. Since Etch updates were no longer available, I did a distupgrade to Lenny. Immediately, Squid stopped working properly. It would take up to two and a half minutes for it to respond to a web request and add it to the access.log. This was using the same configuration file that it was using before the update.
After I found the hardware problem, I did a clean install of Lenny. I used the basic squid.conf like I did on the previous system, only changing it to add my ACLs and because it wasn't saving an access.log to the default location unless I uncommented the path directive. Now, it won't respond to a request at all. Forwarding is enabled and the firewall seems to be set up correctly.
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Jun 29, 2010
I recently reinstalled Lenny and I am attempting to save my /home directory. I used the graphical install and when it came to the part about partitioning, I created a new /home partition "hdb1" and told the installer to ignore my old /home partition "/dev/hda9".Following the completion of the install, I logged in and changed my /etc/fstab so that /home --> my old /home partition "/dev/hda9". I then mounted the old partition to /home and rebooted the system. Now, when I go to my /home directory >> properties, I can see that the files I had are on the drive (2GB are used) --- but --- I cannot actually see the files??
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I'm attempting to install some software on my friend's computer. It keeps saying the packages I want aren't there but I know they are. I've been fooling around with this for a while. I may have broken something in the process. Repository names, perhaps?Is there some way to reinstall Synaptic/Aptitude and "wipe the slate clean?"
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Feb 2, 2010
After running wireless for years my system crashed, I've had to re install lenny and now what ever I try I can't get the wireless to work. I'm running Lenny, kernel 2.6.26-2-686 but when I start up it doesn't seem to be able to start the wireless, whatever I do from gnome wireless tools,
dmesg | grep -i iwl
shows this
[9.663570] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.26ks
[9.663570] iwl3945: Copyright(c) 2003-2008 Intel Corporation
[9.663570] iwl3945: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 3945ABG
[9.725672] iwl3945: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 23 802.11a channels
[9.736286] phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-3945-rs'
[20.518187] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
[20.654215] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[20.654215] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
[23.376244] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
[23.385408] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[23.385408] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
[40.503987] firmware: requesting iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode
[40.519721] iwl3945: iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode firmware file req failed: Reason -2
[40.519728] iwl3945: Could not read microcode: -2
The end statements repeat many times.
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Jul 28, 2015
I do not care to have the DNS server public but more for internal networking at the moment. I have comcast and the server is directly to the modem (10.0.0.1) with a static IP which is 10.0.0.6
I created a zone, local and reverse inside /etc/bind
When I try to execute:
Code: Select all#/etc/init.d/bind9 start
I get a failure.
When I check syslog I get:
Code: Select all#/var/log/syslog -
somwhere in the log it would say.
Opening /[my sudo username]
Failed /[my sudo username] no such file or directory
my resolv.conf in the etc folder keeps reconfiguring itself everytime I restart networking
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Using PKI infrastructure in the environment, preferably a two tier hierarchy? I would like to setup one the way I setup in Windows Server, so was thinking to set one on Linux.
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Feb 27, 2010
i am trying to get a pxe server working on a debian so other clients can boot off it. the problem has two parts.
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2. the other issue is that in the shop many system's have non-working disk drives. also many of them do not have a usb boot option in the bios. all i need to do is get the "bare" kernel file or grub(?) to boot over pxe and give me the ability to boot from a usb flash drive and load the rest of the linux files from there. my primary intention is NOT netinstall. although it wouldnt hurt. my intention is running a linux live usb on systems without bios usb boot support. ive read somewhere that a full pxe live boot requires nfs setup. i am asking for that, just so i can boot from a flash drive.
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Sep 14, 2010
I've illustrated it on this picture, and hope to get the help i need to set it up... [URL]Thow it has to be furture secured, in that meaning it has to be abel to attach a eth2 on the main server, so i have 3 NIC's.Also, i want to have fully controll over ports, IP/MAC's and data overview (Such as a view of the files beeing downloadet/uploadet).
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Apr 17, 2011
I posted a previous topic on bridging, and that didn't seem to work, so I went with Shorewall and I'm trying to setup NAT, but I'm struggling very badly. I have the interfaces configured where eth1 is my Local LAN (loc) network, and eth0 connects to my ISP (net). But my problem is that I have no clue how to forward traffic from eth1 to eth0, without using ProxyARP, which routes all traffic to eth1, and doesn't allow traffic out on itself. I've looked at the NAT tutorials, and they don't make sense to me, because I have two interfaces that I want to be able to talk to each other and the internet at the same time. Is there anyone who's good with Shorewall?
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Mar 11, 2010
using Debian 5.0, GNOME desktop.my DSL service was to be connected today.the problem is my DSL light keeps blinking.ethernet light is solid.how do i setup my DHCP on my computer
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I follow the tutorial at [URL] to setup git over http, and create ssl self-signed cert through [URL]. (The command executed above is exactly the same as described in url, with only change to the name required.) However, while executing `git push upload master', command line prompt throws:
error: Config with no key for remote upload-url
fatal: bad config file line 9 in config
What might be the root cause?
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May 1, 2011
I installed Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/kFreeBSD on the same system. I didn't reinstall grub with kfreebsd, because I figured running grub-mkconfig would modify grub.cfg. But it didn't.It recognized the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as GNU/Linux (6.0.1):
### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
Found Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.1) on /dev/sda3
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
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I'm trying to find good instructions to help me set up a print server with a usb printer on a Lenny box with no GUI. The printer is a Brother HL-2170W. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I would like to discuss setting up a mail server and its implications and alternatives. First, let us see if I have understood this correctly: A mail server consists of many different components. First, a server to listen to any mail inbound for a specific domain (say postfix), and then a POP3/IMAP server (say dovecot). Then, I should somehow configure the rules by which all mail is forwarded to their respective owners. This should be fairly simple by using debians package managers and dselect or whatever program it is that sets up right packages by use cases at the install.
But now lets assume a more complicated environment, where there are multiple users with different domains and needs. First, we need to send mail to ourselves from webapps for instance for backup purposes. So let's say we have a domain called domain.com setup, and we want to send mail to backup@domain.com. Unfortunately, some configuration issue makes the application get confused, because it is trying to send mail to itself, but doesn't quite understand what it should do. How can this problem can be solved?
Second, how could I configure different domains with different rules. For instance, if I want one domain to have a catch-all account, where random email sent to erroneous accounts is captured? Or if I want to create accounts which are not based on actual Debian accounts, but instead just random usernames (say, danny@domain.com, mike@domain.com, support@domain.com etc.)?
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I'm trying to setup roaming profiles on our Samba PDC. I've been at it all day, running into a lot of issues with access denied, and going around changing permissions hoping to fix it
The problem seems to have evolved over the day, getting worse. Right now it's an error message on logging in: Windows cannot locate the server copy of your roaming profile.....
DETAIL- The network name cannot be found. In addition, the user does not have access to any shares by default.
The server can be accessed manually and the user can connect to shares. The server can be pinged by the client. The client's user profiles do not get stored or retrieved on logout/in
current smb.conf
# Samba config file created using SWAT
# from UNKNOWN ()
# Date: 2010/08/22 16:34:42
[global]
workgroup = ROSHNI.LOCAL
[Code].....
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[Code].....
will this work on debian 5.05 also how do I find out if I use ip filters.
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if [ "`id -u`" -eq 0 ]; then
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