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On Linux, always go for manually editing files. Automatic stuff never works. This is a fresh install. Nothing messed up by me yet.

Update: Manual edit fixed all the issues and named is running.

Search for Texas Instruments acx 111 wpa2. I have a Linksys PC Wireless card (WPC54G) that I use with an old laptop. Right now I am installing Linux on it. Once the setup is complete, it will be directly connected to the router. For now I needed the wireless connection. Can’t get it to working. My Router is D-Link DIR 825. Search says I canoot use anything other than WEP or Open. Tried that. Didn’t work. When I run tail -f /var/log/messages I see that the device is scanning. It cannot find any AP’s. Any AP’s. Windows 7 RC shows a page full of AP’s and a few of them even open. I will get around this one with or without the wireless working. But most other people will throw away Linux and get either Windows or a Mac. Linux is no longer about keeping old hardware working.

This is for my own reference for use in Open Suse. I got bits and pieces from many places.

jpaul-linux3:# fdisk -l 

This lists the disks. Find the entry that corresponds to the flash drive. In my case this time it is /dev/sdc1. I have seen cases where the drives are listed by device id. 

This is a temporary mount:

jpaul-linux3:# mkdir /mnt/flash

jpaul-linux3:# mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/flash

jpaul-linux3:# ls -l /mnt/flash

That’s all to it.

There was a power outage here last week and we were not home. When we came back the servers were not running. I guess the power outage lasted more than the UPS capacity. It also looks like there was some kind of a surge that was not filtered very well by the UPS surge protection. ON one server a hard drive died and on the other the DVD drive died. The one with dead DVD drive came back without a problem and no data loss. The other one which acts as DNS, DHCP, MySQL and SAMBA server did not come back because the dead hard drive had the /home mount and also one of the SAMBA shares that had a lot of unimportant but bulky data. That was a Maxtor drive. I have another Maxtor drive that is acting up. Time to mirror that. 

I pulled that dead hard drive from the server and mounted another partition as /home. There were not much useful stuff on the home drive. Most of activities were done as root. I had to do some SAMBA user setups again. Except SAMBA everything else is working fine now. This blog is hosted on the good server with database on the other. 

I added two new SATA II hard drives in place of the dead hard drive. Linux changed the device names of existing hard drives and I had to edit the /etc/fstab.

I can understand people who hate Windows altogether. But I have one problem with people who hate Windows Vista and professes that we should stick with Windows XP.

Windows XP inherently is weak insecurity. If you let your guard down, bot nets gets hold of your computer. You may never realize that your computer is part of a bot net.

So, my question is, who are the people who really want XP to stay alive? My answer is that the people who manage bot nets.

Solution, if you don’t like Vista and you are not that careful about web sites you visit, what you install and so on, get a Linux or Mac. Don’t stick with XP and fall prey to bot nets.