General Linux Chat and Small Questions v. Install Arch
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Question, do i at ANY time need a wired connection for setting up Arch?
Because i hear that the wireless is the biggest problem coming to Arch, and a classmate told me he couldn't remember if i needed wired or not.
[QUOTE=Moofy;35413537]Question, do i at ANY time need a wired connection for setting up Arch?
Because i hear that the wireless is the biggest problem coming to Arch, and a classmate told me he couldn't remember if i needed wired or not.[/QUOTE]
You can install Arch over a wireless connection, but the installer does not set it up for you. If you can connect from the terminal(WEP is easier than WPA) you can install arch.
[QUOTE=IpHa;35413899]You can install Arch over a wireless connection, but the installer does not set it up for you. If you can connect from the terminal(WEP is easier than WPA) you can install arch.[/QUOTE]
WPA is still pretty easy..I have all the commands memorized, in the way I do it anyway.
[code]
mv /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.bak
wpa_passphrase "SSID" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
[SSID in STDIN]
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcpcd
[/code]
and then I just do ifconfig, iwconfig, and ping my router and 8.8.8.8 to check if I'm connected properly.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;35414573]WPA is still pretty easy..I have all the commands memorized, in the way I do it anyway.
[code]
mv /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.bak
wpa_passphrase "SSID" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
[SSID in STDIN]
wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhcpcd
[/code]
and then I just do ifconfig, iwconfig, and ping my router and 8.8.8.8 to check if I'm connected properly.[/QUOTE]
I normally just select 'netcfg' when installing Arch. It has presets for loads of different types of connection (WPA/WEP), all you have to do is a simple:
[CODE]
cp /etc/network.d/examples/wireless-wpa /etc/network.d/wireless
nano /etc/network.d/wireless
(Edit really simple file here)
netcfg -u wireless
[/code]
Netcfg does all the rest. You can even set-it up in rc.conf to automatically connect using netcfg as a daemon.
So, i don't need a wired connection?
Thank god.
Oh! new question, i installed Skype on Mint 12 KDE trough the software center, problem is i can't launch it?
[QUOTE=T3hGamerDK;35354007]In windows, you would run the following in a command prompt:
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bootrec.exe /fixmbr
bootrec.exe /fixboot
[/code]
You might have to do this from the recovery console, I am not sure. But you can get the Windows 7 repair discs for free, so that's not a problem :)[/QUOTE]
Boot to a Windows 7 installation DVD, set language and keyboard etc., click repair your computer at bottom left, command prompt, cd into DVD's/USB's boot directory, bootsect /nt60 C:\, done
At least you should be done, you can just do bootsect /nt60 ALL if shit doesn't work, that reinstalls the bootloader on all drives.
[QUOTE=Moofy;35415118]So, i don't need a wired connection?
Thank god.
Oh! new question, i installed Skype on Mint 12 KDE trough the software center, problem is i can't launch it?[/QUOTE]
Run it from the terminal and see what error is.
Just uninstalled XFCE and installed awesome :dance:
Now I just need to throw out my mouse and spend some time frustrated over learning to use the keyboard efficiently. Speaking of which, does anyone have a suggestion as to which resource is best for learning awesome?
[QUOTE=Goleteral;35385138](Sniffers are never used to monitor user network traffic)[/QUOTE]
you're joking right?
[QUOTE=Rayjingstorm;35419754]Just uninstalled XFCE and installed awesome :dance:
Now I just need to throw out my mouse and spend some time frustrated over learning to use the keyboard efficiently. Speaking of which, does anyone have a suggestion as to which resource is best for learning awesome?[/QUOTE]
lua.org and the awesome wiki. That's about it.
You may want to look into getting conky working with awesome as well, as it can be quite useful to have on the bottom.
[QUOTE=Moofy;35415118]So, i don't need a wired connection?
Thank god.
Oh! new question, i installed Skype on Mint 12 KDE trough the software center, problem is i can't launch it?[/QUOTE]
You [I]may[/I] need a wired connection if your wireless adapter is not supported fully by the Linux kernel. I have an Edimax EW-7811UN adapter which uses the RTL8188CUS chip which isn't fully supported by Linux, and I have to install a driver for it to work fully. (It's detected and can show wireless networks but you can't connect to a network with it). As long as your wireless chip worked out of the box with whatever distro you're on now (Linux Mint by the looks of it), then you should be fine!
Just found out that Richard Stallman is giving a speech titled 'Digital Inclusion' at my university in an 2 and a half hours. Excited!
After messing with unity for a bit and getting everything how I want. I kinda like it.
[QUOTE=Takkun10;35432412]After messing with unity for a bit and getting everything how I want. I kinda like it.[/QUOTE]
Please excuse me for sounding naive, but what's Unity? Are you talking about the game engine or something entirely different?
[editline]4th April 2012[/editline]
I guess I only had to google, ignore me. :v:
[editline]4th April 2012[/editline]
On a similar note, after only having used Arch for the past eight days, I really (really) like it! Right from the fresh CLI install to a fully functional gnome environment, no complaints (aside from the process of installing packages from the AUR-- seems a little complicated in comparison to a package manager. ([I]anyone have a solution to streamline this a little?[/I]))
[QUOTE=:smugspike:;35436984]Please excuse me for sounding naive, but what's Unity? Are you talking about the game engine or something entirely different?
[editline]4th April 2012[/editline]
I guess I only had to google, ignore me. :v:
[editline]4th April 2012[/editline]
On a similar note, after only having used Arch for the past eight days, I really (really) like it! Right from the fresh CLI install to a fully functional gnome environment, no complaints (aside from the process of installing packages from the AUR-- seems a little complicated in comparison to a package manager. ([I]anyone have a solution to streamline this a little?[/I]))[/QUOTE]
Yaourt, a frontend package manager in CLI for AUR.
Thanks!
[QUOTE=:smugspike:;35436984]Please excuse me for sounding naive, but what's Unity? Are you talking about the game engine or something entirely different?
[editline]4th April 2012[/editline]
I guess I only had to google, ignore me. :v:
[editline]4th April 2012[/editline]
On a similar note, after only having used Arch for the past eight days, I really (really) like it! Right from the fresh CLI install to a fully functional gnome environment, no complaints (aside from the process of installing packages from the AUR-- seems a little complicated in comparison to a package manager. ([I]anyone have a solution to streamline this a little?[/I]))[/QUOTE]
Unity is the Desktop Environment for Ubuntu. [url]http://unity.ubuntu.com/projects/unity/[/url]
Opinions on Fedora, share them to me.
I tried limiting my download speed in Fedora once.
I lost 4 days and gave up. Learned lots of new stuff though...
I have recently installed Ubuntu as my OS and my wired internet has been really funky. It is much slower then it used to be on windows and speedtest confirmed it. I went from having approx 25mb/s on windows to ~2mb/s on this. Anyone got any info?
I finished putting my desktop server together and I'm going to install Scientific Linux 6.2!
What are some good sources/guides for getting to know SC6.2 better?
[QUOTE=nikomo;35460139]Opinions on Fedora, share them to me.[/QUOTE]
Up-to-date software, fast. Not beginner friendly though as it's not easy to do little things like install Nvidia drivers etc.
Aw man. I'm stuck in GParted for the next hour while my HDD is partitioned. It comes with a browser now (NetSurf), but my god it's terrible. Nothing is rendered correctly.
[QUOTE=BBgamer720;35466818]Up-to-date software, fast.[/QUOTE]
Sounds good.
[QUOTE=BBgamer720;35466818]Not beginner friendly though as it's not easy to do little things like install Nvidia drivers etc.[/QUOTE]
Not a problem.
It looks like I'll be giving Fedora a try, I've never in all my life given Fedora a try.
How can I run multiple wine's at once? I need to exectute this
wine program.exe however it needs to start about 20 times. I tried doing wine program.exe 20 times in a sh file but that only starts it one by one after the last one has finished (they all need to run at the same time) and somehow to stop them all easily too.
wine program.exe[b] &[/b]
[QUOTE=thelinx;35471812]wine program.exe[b] &[/b][/QUOTE]
That seems to do the same thing as the sh program, it executes after the first one has ended (successfully)
then you're doing it wrong
[QUOTE=thelinx;35471913]then you're doing it wrong[/QUOTE]
Sorry yeah that worked, however what's the easiest way to kill all of them after? I have to kill the PID's one by one and doing 20 is annoying.
[QUOTE=Mrkrabz;35472096]Sorry yeah that worked, however what's the easiest way to kill all of them after? I have to kill the PID's one by one and doing 20 is annoying.[/QUOTE]
'killall wine' should kill all wine processes running.
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