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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...
Mandriva 2011 Almost Ready, RC2 Released
Mandriva 2011 RC2 was released yesterday with lot of bug fixes and stability improvements. In the release announcement Eugeni Dodonov also introduced the new release manager, Denis Koryavov from ROSA Labs. ROSA Labs is taking a large role in this release primarily with its new interface elements. There were no significant changes in the appearance of this release, because these last developmental releases are all about the bugs. In his fin...
Step-By-Step: Installing a DHCP server under Linux
The benefits of DHCP are compounded when you are using Linux as its OS. In this Daily Drill Down, I will go through the steps of configuring a Linux server to work as a DHCP server. Fear not—it’s actually quite simple. The ins and outs of DHCP The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is nothing new to many Linux users. Most people have a DHCP client installed on their computers so they can connect to the Internet via cable or ...
Five tips for improving Linux server performance
You can maximize the performance of your Linux server by making a few tweaks. Jack Wallen runs through some effective performance-boosting tricks. Most Linux server distributions, out of the box, will outperform proprietary systems. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t things you can do to improve the performance of your server. In fact, there are always ways to eke out a bit more performance, no matter the operating system. But in this a...
Swap space in Linux
Linux uses swap space as “extra” memory for pages of application memory that are not being actively used by the application but have been modified .The swap space size plus RAM size is the total amount of virtual memory for the system. When most of the system’s real memory is in use, and there is a need for more,some data will be moved into swap to free real RAM memory for use by applications or for kernel use, such as for driver buffers...
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