Posted on November 1, 2009 by symbolik
While upgrading my kid’s computer and installing the web proxy and filter (see article titled “SquidGuard Blacklists…“), I ran across a real problem. Wireless would start only after a user logged into their desktop, so the system had no IP address until then. However, without an IP, Dansguardian would fail to start. I tried scripting [...]
Filed under: HowTo, Kubuntu, Security, wireless | Tagged: blacklist, dansguardian, filter, HowTo, init, interfaces, Kubuntu, networking, proxy, scripts, Security, squid, squidGuard, SSID, troubleshooting, Ubuntu, update-rc.d, wireless, WPA, wpa_supplicant | Leave a Comment »
Posted on May 5, 2009 by symbolik
I tried to connect my media computer to my wireless network and failed. I ended up running a wired connection to it and searching online for an answer. There is a lot of stuff out there regarding problems with the KNetwork Manager app being brain-dead with wireless. I did some checking and [...]
Filed under: Hardware, KDE, Kubuntu, wireless | Tagged: AirForce One 54g, b43, bcm, BCM 4318, Broadcom, KNetworkManager | 9 Comments »
Posted on February 19, 2008 by symbolik
Found this while mindlessly surfing around – this is a very good read if you are troubleshooting wireless on Ubuntu (or Linux in general).
Here is the link – HOWTO: Wireless Security – WPA1, WPA2, LEAP, etc.
Hope this helps!
Filed under: Hardware, HowTo, Linux, Security, wireless | Tagged: AES, HowTo, iwconfig, LEAP, TKIP, wireless, WPA | 2 Comments »
Posted on May 19, 2007 by symbolik
Amazing what some folks will throw away.
I was driving to work, and I happened to see a computer sitting on the curb in my neighborhood. This means it is for the garbage collector to pick up. I went to the house and asked what the story was, and the lady who answered the [...]
Filed under: Hardware, Linux, Microsoft, RAID and LVM, wireless | 2 Comments »
Posted on April 15, 2007 by symbolik
Trolling through websites, I found an interesting link on this aircrack-ng tutorial page – a calculator to estimate the amount of time it would take to brute-force the WPA keys, based on a variety of parameters.
The calculator is HERE – you will need to turn on JavaScript if you are using No-Script (IE users, just [...]
Filed under: Security, wireless | 1 Comment »
Posted on April 15, 2007 by symbolik
I decided to try out kismet today. I had a D-Link USB wireless adapter handy (a DWL-G122 version B1), but no driver. Some quick Googling turned up the RaLink Linux support web site, but I had trouble compiling the drivers there (I tried both the RT2501USB(RT2571W/RT2671) and the RT2500USB(RT2571/RT2572) (source Code)). So [...]
Filed under: Hardware, Linux, Security, wireless | 3 Comments »
Posted on March 4, 2007 by symbolik
My son’s computer upstairs is wireless. I set this up nearly two years ago, and it definitely took some trial-and-error (and merchandise returns) to get it right. I am not sure how much things have changed since then (it doesn’t look like much), but here is what I did anyway:
I installed a Planex [...]
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