Linux Networking

Broadcom 802.11b/g
Sorry to trouble you all: Just got slackware 10.2 up and running on a dv5000z hp notebook with an AMD64 and an ATI Xpress 200M video card (unfortunately had to use ATI's proprietory driver). Everything works great except the Broadcom 802.11b/g card. I compiled the driver in kernel 2.6.17.6. I can see the card ... 26 Jul 2006 12:18

make printer network available
Hello! I would like to make a HP Laserjet 3330 using an "USB print server" available for my Laptop using ubuntu dapper drake. I have not yet attached any printer to my laptop or the network. I think Ubuntu uses cups as the printing system but it also loads some specialised hp printing system upon startup. ... 28 Jul 2006 02:58

Linksys WET11 not acquiring DHCP address from ISC DHCPd server
(I also posted this in alt.networking.wireless earlier today, as my DHCP server is running Ubuntu 6.06 Linux, I thought this group might be able to help. Thank you.) I am trying to get one of the Linksys WET11's to bridge a couple desktops to the rest of my home network. The problem is that the WET11 does no... 20 Jul 2006 02:26

prism 2.5 chipset config. 4 ubuntu
Hi all. I have acer travelmate 250 with internal wireless based on intersil prism 2.5 chip 0000:02:05.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01) But my connection not function. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:8A:D8:B7:97 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU... 20 Jun 2006 15:19

How do I change IP address dynamically?
I have a Fedora Core 4 server which usually is assigned the IP address of 192.168.0.160. I would like to be able to changed it *temporarily* (i.e. for a special session until I restore it manually) to 192.168.0.31. At the command line, as root, I type: ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.31 The IP address indeed chan... 21 Jun 2006 16:25

How to create /etc/passwd file?
Hi there, I am going to create 9000 users. I have all the user names in a txt file userlist.txt like this: user_1 user_2 : user_9000 I want the passwd file to be created like this: user_1:x:1001:1000::/home/user_1:/bin/bash user_2:x:1002:1000::/home/user_2:/bin/bash : user_1000:x:1001::/home/user_2000:/bin... 27 Jun 2006 13:23

How to capture tcpdump data to simulate connections from multiple IPs?
Hi, This is a generic question about how to capture packets on linux for testing purpose. I need to capture packets comprising TCP connections from multiple IPs to a single host. This is to test my code (in verilog). I can capture packets using tcpdump but since I have only two machines at home, I will only be g... 19 Jun 2006 12:09

Dial-Up Modem Questions
1) I have a USR 56K v.92 Modem. I've noticed that it speed really slows if it has been on for more than an hour. A quick disconnect-reconnect seems to improve speed temporarily for example and then it slows down again after a bit. The modem is hot to the touch so I'm wondering if it is a heat issue. Has anyone... 21 Jun 2006 22:08

When does skb fragmentation happen ?
I'm writing a small kernel module that is similar to a Ethernet device driver and it receives skbs from the kernel. I'd like to generate some skbs with fragments (i.e. skb_shinfo(skb)->nr_frag > 0) to test my module, but I don't know how. If you can help, I'd highly appreciate it. Basically, I'd like to kn... 20 Jun 2006 11:07

Bluetooth network
Hi! I have been able to set up a bluetooth network using two debian boxes so that now I can ping the boxes each other through a bnep interface. Now I wonder why I cannot copy large files from the client (PANU) to the Network Access Point (NAP) using scp: each time I try to scp a file from the PANU to the NAP the ... 2 May 2006 12:47