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Wireless (broadcom-wl) not working in fedora 13 for Dell 1545
Fedora 13 does have support for Broadcom wireless drivers On Dell laptop, but it didn’t really work out on a friend’s laptop. Finally we got it working and I thought I’ll just note the steps down. Below are the three easy steps you need to take to make it work properly. Install the RPM Fusion repos... http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration Install the akmod version of the 64-bit driver... su yum install akmod-wl Rebo...
How to assign a static IP in Linux
Assigning a static IP on your Linux system is light. Few Tools in Linux like system-config-network and netconfig provides to you a simple to do this in GUI. CLI ( Command Line Interface) is better GUI (Graphical User interface) , as per my cognition. Here we go with CLI, Navigate to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ [root@thiyag]# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ In Linux, every network interface will have its own interface ...
Nagios Quickstart with Fedora
This guide is intended to provide you with simple instructions on how to install Nagios from source (code) on Fedora and have it monitoring your local machine inside of 20 minutes. No advanced installation options are discussed here - just the basics that will work for 95% of users who want to get started. These instructions were written based on a standard Fedora Core 6 Linux distribution. What You'll ...
how to : FTP Vs SFTP
When you transfer files from your computer to your server or from one computer to another, you probably use an FTP program. Some of those programs, like FileZilla, offer support for additional protocols like SFTP. There is an important difference between FTP and SFTP, and you should know what both are before you start transferring files. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and is the most widely used protocol for file distribution and...
How to change the default port number for Apache HTTP Server
We all know that as default the Apache HTTP Server will ping to port number 80 . What we have to do when a situation of changing this post number comes? Lets see some simple steps for this… 1. Assume that your new port number is 78 2. cp /etc/httpd/ports.conf /etc/httpd/ports.conf_backupgedit /etc/httpd/ports.conf 3. Find this line- Listen 80 4. Replace with the following line – Listen 78 5. Save the edited file 6. /etc...