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Getting the new Linux wireless regulatory domain stuff to work

A few days ago I installed kernel 2.6.29 from backports.org on my new Debian Lenny machine in order to get Intel 5100 AGN wireless driver support. While trying to convince the driver that I am not, in fact, an American, I discovered that Linux’s wireless support is moving toward a new framework for handling the [...]

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2009 06 20 Simeon Miteff Technical Comments (0)

Linux home networking part 2: Dynamic default route

After getting the IP addressing on my home LAN sorted out (described in part one) I decided to tackle another unusual aspect of my setup: there is no fixed default route, instead I have M hosts on the network, and a subset of N that have wireless Internet modems, which means that at any given [...]

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2009 02 12 Simeon Miteff Technical Comments (1)

Linux home networking part 1: Static IP fall-back

NetworkManager has made it’s way into the top Linux distributions as the standard way to manage network interfaces on desktop/notebook computers. I like NetworkManager. It works well for both wired and wireless interfaces with DHCP, and using wireless security and authentication is a breeze. With more recent versions you can also configure static IP addresses, [...]

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2009 02 09 Simeon Miteff Technical Comments (0)