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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04.1 install on Dell Mini 9...
Here are the steps I took to install and configure Ubuntu 8.04.1 on my brand new Dell mini 9 (Inspiron 910).
1. Attached an external USB Cdrom drive and inserted Ubuntu 8.04.1 (32bit) CD into the drive.
2. Booted the laptop, pressing the "0" key to allow me to boot from the Cdrom.
3. Installed Ubuntu... Only change from standard (next... next... done) install was to setup the partitions manually, creating two (2) partitions as follows;
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200MB - /boot
"/" for the rest. No swap.
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4. Rebooted after install.
5. Connected to wired network and updated packages (173 total).
6. Reboot.
7. Wifi now works.
8. Sound... Added the following line to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base;
options snd-hda-intel model=dell
9. Installed Restricted codecs and software;
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
10. Installed Restricted Broadcom Driver;
System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
11. Done.
1. Attached an external USB Cdrom drive and inserted Ubuntu 8.04.1 (32bit) CD into the drive.
2. Booted the laptop, pressing the "0" key to allow me to boot from the Cdrom.
3. Installed Ubuntu... Only change from standard (next... next... done) install was to setup the partitions manually, creating two (2) partitions as follows;
-----------------------------
200MB - /boot
"/" for the rest. No swap.
-----------------------------
4. Rebooted after install.
5. Connected to wired network and updated packages (173 total).
6. Reboot.
7. Wifi now works.
8. Sound... Added the following line to the end of /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base;
options snd-hda-intel model=dell
9. Installed Restricted codecs and software;
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
10. Installed Restricted Broadcom Driver;
System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers
11. Done.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
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Sunday, June 10, 2007
Kicking cisco's vpn-client to the curb...
I have been working with Cisco's vpn client for about two years now. It is a nice product... if you never update your kernel!!!
Case in point; I use Ubuntu and recently upgraded to version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). I was able to get Cisco's vpn-client working with the original kernel on version 7.04 via a diff patch, but last week a new kernel came down in the updates... and guess what stopped working?
Anyway, after asking Google for help and trying a couple of things, I ran into a blog that talked about converting my Cisco PCF files to work with vpnc. Well, 5 minutes later I was back in the VPN world again, connecting to my office without a single kernel module complaining!!!
So here are the steps I performed;
1. Install vpnc.
sudo apt-get install vpnc
2. Download the pcf2vpnc perl script.
wget http://svn.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/vpnc/trunk/pcf2vpnc
3. Make the script executable.
chmod +x pcf2vpnc
4. Convert your .pcf files to work with vpnc.
./pcf2vpnc cisco.pcf > cisco.conf
5. Copy your new .conf files to /etc/vpnc.
sudo cp cisco.conf /etc/vpnc/
6. Connect using vpnc.
sudo vpnc-connect cisco
7. To disconnect your vpn tunnel.
sudo vpnc-disconnect
Good luck,
Mike
Case in point; I use Ubuntu and recently upgraded to version 7.04 (Feisty Fawn). I was able to get Cisco's vpn-client working with the original kernel on version 7.04 via a diff patch, but last week a new kernel came down in the updates... and guess what stopped working?
Anyway, after asking Google for help and trying a couple of things, I ran into a blog that talked about converting my Cisco PCF files to work with vpnc. Well, 5 minutes later I was back in the VPN world again, connecting to my office without a single kernel module complaining!!!
So here are the steps I performed;
1. Install vpnc.
sudo apt-get install vpnc
2. Download the pcf2vpnc perl script.
wget http://svn.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/vpnc/trunk/pcf2vpnc
3. Make the script executable.
chmod +x pcf2vpnc
4. Convert your .pcf files to work with vpnc.
./pcf2vpnc cisco.pcf > cisco.conf
5. Copy your new .conf files to /etc/vpnc.
sudo cp cisco.conf /etc/vpnc/
6. Connect using vpnc.
sudo vpnc-connect cisco
7. To disconnect your vpn tunnel.
sudo vpnc-disconnect
Good luck,
Mike
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