help needed with wifi, remote viewing and apps.
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help needed with wifi, remote viewing and apps.| arnavk007 |
 Posted: May 1 2012, 12:57 PM
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I have installed scientific linux 6.2 on my netbook. I am not able to use wifi on it. i made a search and found out that the wifi driver comes with kernel 2.6.38 but sl has 2.6.32 which does not support my wifi card.
Please suggest a good way to use my netbook from my desktop which runs win 7 x64. i used teamviewer for windows but i do not like the linux version. Also, during installation i had specified the hostname as lappy but now it is something like dhcppc0:1. how do i change it? How do i share files with my desktop? i want my home directory to be shared with all privileges. -------------------- Arnav Kalra (open inside)
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| toracat |
Posted: May 1 2012, 04:44 PM
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About the wifi driver, you need to provide more detailed info. Head for ELRepo FAQ #4 at :
http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ and post the Vendor:Device ID pairing of your wifi device. -------------------- ELRepo: repository specialized in hardware support for EL
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| toracat |
Posted: May 1 2012, 04:48 PM
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About connecting from your Windows desktop, assuming you want GUI login, I'd recommend FreeNX. This CentOS wiki will help you get started:
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/FreeNX -------------------- ELRepo: repository specialized in hardware support for EL
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| arnavk007 |
Posted: May 1 2012, 05:34 PM
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SLF Rookie Group: Members Posts: 16 Member No.: 1501 Joined: 1-May 12 |
Thanks for the help toracat.
How do install this kmod? kmod-r8192ce I will look at free nx. Do i have to add the centos repo or is it available in some other repo? I also want to set up file sharing. How do i do that? -------------------- Arnav Kalra (open inside)
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| arnavk007 |
Posted: May 1 2012, 05:50 PM
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SLF Rookie Group: Members Posts: 16 Member No.: 1501 Joined: 1-May 12 |
How do i change my hostname?
-------------------- Arnav Kalra (open inside)
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| toracat |
Posted: May 1 2012, 08:51 PM
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You can find the details on the ELRepo homepage.
You do not need to install the repo. Download freenx and nx from http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/extras/ : freenx-0.7.3-8.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm nx-3.5.0-1.el6.centos.x86_64.rpm (replace 'x86_64' with 'i386' if your OS is 32-bit) and install both of them with the yum command. yum will most likely install other packages to satisfy dependencies. -------------------- ELRepo: repository specialized in hardware support for EL
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| arnavk007 |
Posted: May 2 2012, 01:38 PM
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SLF Rookie Group: Members Posts: 16 Member No.: 1501 Joined: 1-May 12 |
Thank you. Wifi has started working. How do i install rpm packages with yum?
-------------------- Arnav Kalra (open inside)
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| Nathan |
Posted: May 2 2012, 02:31 PM
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Edit the HOSTNAME line in /etc/sysconfig/network to whatever you want.
cd to the directory the files are in yum install the-first-package.rpm the-second-package.rpm You can use tab completion to aid you in your quest. |
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| arnavk007 |
Posted: May 2 2012, 05:03 PM
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SLF Rookie Group: Members Posts: 16 Member No.: 1501 Joined: 1-May 12 |
Thanks Nathan.
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| arnavk007 |
Posted: Aug 5 2012, 11:05 AM
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SLF Rookie Group: Members Posts: 16 Member No.: 1501 Joined: 1-May 12 |
I am having a few problems with wireless on a fresh install.
I installed the kmod package. Networkmanager sees all networks but is not able to connect to my wireless network. I updated the kernel but when i boot up using the updated kernel i get a kernel panic. What should i do? -------------------- Arnav Kalra (open inside)
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| arnavk007 |
Posted: Aug 6 2012, 12:53 PM
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SLF Rookie Group: Members Posts: 16 Member No.: 1501 Joined: 1-May 12 |
I solved the problem. My router caused it and a reset solved the problem.
-------------------- Arnav Kalra (open inside)
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