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Wireless Linux at Lehigh University

I tried for a few days to get Lehigh’s 8021X authentication to work with my wireless setup, but the wireless network kept disassociating before the handshake finished. I asked around and a bunch of people said that Ashutosh’s instructions worked perfectly. I tried them verbatim, except without ndiswrapper (yuck!) The Intel iwlwifi driver has been [...]

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Script Bash para solucionar Realtek r8168 en Ubuntu Hardy (Español)

Al utilizar Hardy original, algunas tarjetas de red como la Realtek r8168 no funcionan. Recomiendo esta solución: En lugar del utilizar el driver r8169 que se distribuye con Ubuntu (que está roto), es mas conveniente utilizar el driver r8168 que distribuye Realtek.

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Script to Fix R8168 and R8111 in Debian/Ubuntu GNU/Linux

The new Realtek r8168/r8111 network cards do not work out of the box in recent distributions of GNU/Linux. modprobe loads the r8169 module, which has not yet been updated to work with these cards. A work around is to use the r8168 driver provided by Realtek.

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New Vostro 1310 Laptop

My old laptop, a Compaq nx 9010, was old and weak, but then it also became stolen, too. So, I’ve put in an order for a Dell Vostro 1310. Why This? Most laptops are ugly. To get something café-worthy, my options appeared either to be the MacBook, a Vostro, or a Thinkpad. Thinkpads have a [...]

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