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How do I ensure outbound TCP/IP traffic always uses a VPN, even when using Wifi?
I'd like to ensure that my VPN is started and running, before any TCP traffic from any of my background services send or receive data. How can I guarantee that this is the case?
How do I handle ...
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Easily connecting to the internet with FreeBSD
I am a beginner at using UNIX, and I have a small Toshiba notebook computer which I installed FreeBSD 9.x on.
I looked at the online handbook to try to find out how to connect to the internet, but ...
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Connect to hidden Wifi AP with wpa-supplicant?
I have a headless Debian machine, with a Wifi dongle connected. I used to hide the Wifi AP, but now I can't.
If I unhide it, some lines in the /etc/network/interfaces will allow me to connect:
auto ...
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Any way to list wireless clients in range
I'm looking to see whether it's possible to implement a staff 'in office/out of office' facility by tracking the active wifi (phones/tablets/laptops) in the building.
Is it possible to return a list ...
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Debian Squeeze wifi interrupted no way to re-enable
So I am messing around with #! Linux on my desktop I really like it as an OS and it runs flawlessly on my laptop. Desktop as long as its kernel 2.6 and lower it runs just as good.
My issue being ...
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make networkmanager not prompt for password after failed connection?
While it's only an intermittent annoyance, occasionally I'm on a flaky wifi network, and each time networkmanager reconnects, it asks for the wifi password. This wouldn't be a huge issue, but the ...
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Fedora 15: em1 recently dissapeared and hostapd no longer serves internet to wirelessly connected devices
I have a laptop running hostapd, phpd, and mysql. This laptop uses an Ethernet connection to connect to the internet and acts as a wireless access point for my workplace's wifi devices. After ...
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Losing wifi connection to access point after a few minutes (hostapd, dnsmasq, iptables)
I'm using a laptop as a wifi access point. Since this laptop has the proper hardware, I was able to use hostapd. I wanted to use DHCP and iptables/NAT forwarding instead of a bridge to have more ...
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Terminal commands equivalent to NetworkManager's “Use as Hotspot” option
I'm making a gui application which will control my laptop in order to make it act as a wifi hotspot. I may change distributions so I want to find a solution which will work generally for all ...
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Trouble getting iwlwifi driver working
I just installed Debian and I am having issues getting my wireless working.
I installed Squeeze and also the nonfree firmware for iwlwifi.
I thought I did everything right but I am still not getting ...
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Activate WiFi on runlevel 3 startup
I am running SL6. During GNOME session, the wifi is connected as soon as I login, however the same does not happen until I login.
The situation further worsens in runlevel 3 where the wifi is not ...
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Networking is not starting up?
I have a Raspberry Pi and while its plugged into the network via ethernet, my setup works and I can connect to the static IP.
Today I bought a wlan adapter and after install it works great too... but ...
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Using the Wifi of a notebook via ethernet for another PC
I want to connect a PC to the internet via my notebook, which is connected to a WLAN.
The setup should look like the following scheme:
PC (eth0) -> Notebook (eth0) -> Notebook(wlan0) -> ...
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Auto-switch to wifi
Need to connect to specific wifi point as soon as it is in range. If it is out of range, then system must stay connected LAN.
In case, any wifi-point is in range, there must be auto-switch.
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Can Linux support a “Ralink corp. RT2800 802.11n PCI” (maybe a RT2860STA?) in an Asus EEE 901 netbook
OK, I know that this isn't going to be straightforward, but I'd really like to get it working.
About 18-24 months ago, my Asus EEE 901 netbook was working fine - running Ubuntu - and I let it ...
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Is there a way to list the connected devices on my wifi access point?
I have a Angstrom linux device as an access point, running hostapd, dhcpd, works fine. Can I get a list of devices connected to the wifi? I know I can get the DHCP leases, but I need to know which ...
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How can I setup a wifi access point to only allow users if they accept an EULA?
I need to setup an access point to only allow users through if they first accept an EULA. To make things slightly simpler, I'm looking into doing this with a unix machine that shares the connection ...
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Arch Linux system borked after update [closed]
I have been running arch on my macbook 5,2 since I purchased it back in 2009. This morning I did a full system update (after a few months going without updates) and found some things not working, ...
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Unable to connect to wifi on Linux Mint
I installed Linux Mint and am trying to connect to wifi, but this does not work.
On the system tray it shows the “connecting” icon for a while, then the “not connected” icon.
How can I investigate ...
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D-Link Wireless N 150 USB Adapter on Ubuntu
Link DWA-123 wireless adapter, on my desktop running Ubuntu 9.10 the device is being recognized as in, when I hit lsusb i get this entry
Bus 001 Device 010: ID 2001:3c17 D-Link Corp. [hex]
How do i ...
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No wireless in Archlinux Gnome3
Successfully installed Gnome3 on archlinux (not the fallback mode).
EDIT: My wired internet connection works fine.
However, I can't see the network icon (or wireless networks) in the tray. When I ...
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TP-Link WN321G USB wlan in VirtualBox Ubuntu guest
I am trying wifi usb stick tp-link wn321g @ ubuntu 11.04 (in virtualbox), so far I was able to scan the air, connect to a wpa2 network and do some basic information gathering using airodump-ng
Now ...
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What log files to include when reporting a bug report for my wlan card?
I'd like to report a bug with my wireless card cutting out (seemingly) randomly, but I don't know what log files to include.
I know a tail -F of a particular log file when the card cuts out would be ...
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Getting a short wifi password to work on Linux Mint
Wifi password became a problem to me. My wifi password consists of only 4 letters but my Linux Mint 12 is expecting more than 7 letters - until then connect button is disabled.
Can I work around this ...
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WPA pre-shared key format in linux and macintosh
I'm temporarily in a situation where the wifi network I need to use is implemented using Macintosh equipment. They have encoded their network using WPA and TKIP. I can't seem to get onto their network ...
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Can SSH passwords be sniffed out over Wi-Fi?
When you ssh, can the password you enter to connect, be intercepted if you're using untrusted public Wi-Fi (coffee shop, library, airport, etc).
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Atheros AR9285, Linux and 802.1n (oh and a linksys E3000)
Recently I bought me a Linksys e3000 access point.
I configured this access point to, on 2.4GHz, only allow connections with 802.1n.
The laptop I use has a Altheros AR9285 wifi chipset.
Connecting ...
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How can I print out information about a Wireless Access Point in range?
How can I print out information about a Wireless Access Point in range? Can I for example get the MAC address?
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Auto connect to a wireless network (Ångström Linux)
I am using Ångström Linux on BeagleBoard-xM. I have installed a RTL8188SU USB Wi-Fi adapter and configured it properly. But it doesn't connect automatically even though I have marked the interface as ...
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Debian PowerBook G4 WiFi Driver
How do I get wifi to work on my powerbook g4 with xfce debian? I have tried sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter but it comes up with E: Unable to locate package bcm43xx-fwcutter. What do I do?
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How do you derive the passphrase from hexadecimal wep key?
I have a hexadecimal WEP key in the setting of my router.
When I try to connect, the system asks me for the WEP passphrase.
How can I derive it from my hexadecimal?
This is what I have:
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All commands that should be used to connect to wifi in command line
I would like to switch from gnome to awesome and I would like to connect my wifi network in command line (instead of using gnome tools).
So, I searched on the internet and found approximatively the ...
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How do I connect to a new wifi on the command line? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
All commands that should be used to connect to wifi in command line
I don't need to configure my wifi card or anything. I just want to do the equivalent of a) listing ...
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SCP works, but SSH doesn't (over wifi)
As the title says, when I'm using wifi at my office, I'm able to copy files to and from my server using SCP, but for some reason SSH is non-responsive. It just hangs, doesn't print anything, and I ...
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Where are NetworkManager's WiFi settings stored?
I remember the days of playing with /etc/$WE/wpa_supplicant.conf to try and force a semi-secure network on a debian based system, but now on to xubuntu, I haven't needed to do any *.conf-ing in a ...
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Where to obtain Broadcom DW1530 wireless-n wlan half-mini driver?
I am running Fedora 15 x86_64 on Dell Latitude E5420 which is using Broadcom DW1530 wlan card, have been looking around the web but couldn't find a driver, anyone can help?
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How to extend my wireless network with OpenWrt
I have two routers, both running OpenWRT 10.04
The first is a WRT160NL router connected to my ISP. I am using it as an access point with the ESSID of "160AP". It's WEP password is "AAAAA" and it's ...
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Can I spoof the MAC address in Android?
Is it possible to spoof the MAC address of the wireless interface using wpa_supplicant.conf in Android when I connect as a client to an access point?
Edit
Unfortunately, Android doesn't support
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Powertop strange results
I have installed Ubuntu 11.04 and battery life decreased by 2 times. Powertop documentation says that there should be 3 wakeups per second, I have 800-900. I think it's very strange because I didn't ...
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How to check if my wireless connection uses AES or TKIP from a terminal?
I have a wireless router that has settings to use AES, TKIP or AES+TKIP encryption for wireless connections.
My Linux-based device does not like AES (it drops out from time to time), my girlfriend's ...
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What is reliable, autoconnecting wifi manager?
openSUSE 11.4, one wifi connection with static IP.
Requirements:
after autologin connection should be automatically established with defined static IP
after connection dropped, manager should try ...
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How to disable wifi autonegotiation on debian6.0
I would like to disable automatic wifi negotiation on my 1000HE eeepc. WiFi Chipset is a ralink2860sta. I am using the non-free module and everything is working as intended except it tends to pick up ...
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Firmware for wireless card on Ubuntu/Debian?
This is a follow up to my previous question about Debian support for Linksys Wusb600n. I have tried running the Ubunut/Xubuntu LiveCDs and the WiFi does not come up.
The Gnome Network Manager menu ...
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What tools do I need to intercept and change an incoming packet on a WP2-Personal wifi hub
Which tools should I research into to intercept a plain text packet, edit it and then continue it on it's way. I am using Ubuntu 11.04 and Backtrack 5; my wifi is WPA2-person encrypted. I need to edit ...
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debian testing bcm4312 low power connectivity issues
this page says b43 supports my low power bcm4312 in my dell 1545 inspiron.
kernel version 2.6.38-2-686-bigmem
(just installed bigmem to see if it would make any difference. it didnt)
i've been ...
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How to find out which Wi-Fi driver is installed?
I know about lsmod, but how do I figure out which driver does what?
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Wi-Fi constantly disconnects
Using either NetworkManager or Wicd to manage wireless networking on my Wi-Fi-powered laptop, too often I get randomly disconnected, and I see these messages on /var/log/syslog:
Dec 10 05:21:26 ...
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Measuring internet connection quality
I'm having WLAN trouble on my dualbooting win/linux laptop - the connection on linux side has occasional trouble, and seems somewhat slow and chunky. I would try to fix this issue by fiddling with all ...
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How to connect two machines via wifi and no other hardware?
Without using any other hardware, I want to connect two machines that have wifi, so that I can transfer files between them, for example.
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Setting up a wireless to ethernet bridge
I am trying to set up a temporary network using the following hardware
[Wireless Router]))) )) ) [laptop] ----- [Desktop]
^wifi (debian) ^ethernet ^(3com Audrey)
Looking ...
