April 8, 2008 · Networking · 1 comment

This script that can do this very easily. It uses ndiswrapper to install for 32bit or 64bt Ubuntu or Kubuntu. You can get the script from below

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April 3, 2008 · Networking · 1 comment

This is for the realtek chipset, where the drivers on the CD are blkwgn7.inf, etc.
Belkin changes the chipset for this card (the F5D7010) with each version that they release. Therefore, this HOWTO is only expected to work with version 7 of the card. It was very difficult to identify the chipset. I checked the ndiswrapper.org database to determine my chipset. Other chipsets that have been used for different versions of this card include Atheros and BCM4306.

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April 2, 2008 · Networking · 2 comments

You will need the following packages:

build-essential and linux-headers-‘uname -r'

sudo aptitude install  build-essential linux-headers-‘uname -r'

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March 31, 2008 · Networking, Server · 41 comments

Squid is a fully-featured HTTP/1.0 proxy which is almost (but not quite -- we're getting there!) HTTP/1.1 compliant. Squid offers a rich access control, authorization and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications.

This is a short guide on how to set up a transparent squid proxy server. Squid is a caching proxy for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator.

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March 29, 2008 · Networking · 46 comments

In setting up their wireless connection for the first time, Im discovering many individuals having problems connecting through Network Manager or other GUI wireless connection tools. In fact my Network Manager is intermittently buggy, connecting sometimes and not others. This guide benefits all users in case the GUI tools are not working, and is useful for testing a wireless connection during initial installation of wireless drivers since it provides for good debugging output.

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