http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/ 2010-09-10T00:03:25+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/ http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2006-10-04T09:23:08+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:alsa&rev=1159953788&do=diff A small HOWTO found at <http://wiki.splitbrain.org/alsa> and which I edited according to my own views. It explains to configure your system to play sounds from various applications simultanously. Think of applications like XMMS, GAIM, MPlayer and Firefox (with Flashplugin). text/html 2010-02-14T21:46:17+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:cups&rev=1266183977&do=diff FIXME this page is a work in progress FIXME ---------- CUPS (the Common UNIX Printing System) is now the default printing subsystem in Slackware, after years of faithful service by the lprng package which is no longer part of Slackware. The commandline lpr program that some of you use is in fact part of CUPS, but it emulates the old lpr program that has been known in Linux/UNIX for ages and which was the way to print if you had lprng installed in Slackware. But a set of commandline tools is n… text/html 2007-03-18T14:14:58+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:current&rev=1174227298&do=diff Some things I wanted out as a quick reference; more will be added here soon I guess: Selecting the 'generic' kernel during install When presented with the kernel selection (either the huge or the generic kernel) you will see the warning about choosing the generic kernel. You need to create an initrd before exiting the install and rebooting or else your new Slackware installation will panic on boot because the generic kernel lacks drivers for ext3 and reiser (and other) filesystems. This is … text/html 2008-11-18T16:00:09+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:fixes&rev=1227024009&do=diff Fixes for annoyances in Slackware USB scanner and hotplug When you have a USB scanner attached to your computer when it boots, and the computer uses hotplug to initialize your hardware, you will probably see something similar to the following message: text/html 2008-11-19T11:23:28+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:madwifi&rev=1227093808&do=diff Installing Madwifi on Slackware [Madwifi ] Wireless support in Slackware has much improved since Slackware 10.0 (the first release to support non-PCMCIA wireless cards out of the box). The madwifi driver for Atheros based chipsets works fine with the current 2.6.x series of kernels and the 2.4.x kernels found in Slackware releases prior to 12.0. The Slackware configuration files support unencrypted, WEP- and WPA-protected connections. For WPA encryption, the wpa_supplicant package (part of Sl… text/html 2010-06-01T08:13:34+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:multilib&rev=1275380014&do=diff Multilib Slackware for x86_64 This article contains instructions on how to create a true multilib Slackware64. A multilib 64bit Linux system is capable of running 64bit as well as 32bit software. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard dictates the best way to achieve a clean separation between 64bit and 32bit software on a single system. With Slackware64 we chose to adopt this standard, so it has been prepared to look for 64bit libraries in /lib64 and /usr/lib64 directories. This is why I call Slac… text/html 2008-09-11T11:39:26+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:ndiswrapper&rev=1221133166&do=diff Wireless card support in linux is pretty good nowadays, as more and more vendors realize there is not per definition evil in using and releasing Open Source Software, or in co-operation with Open Source developers. For the old-style 11Mbit PCMCIA cards, drivers have existed for some time now (hostap, linux-wlan) and a few 54 Mbit card drivers have even made it into the kernel (prism54 and ipw2200/ipw2200). Drivers like madwifi (for Atheros chipsets) and rt2x00 (for RaLink chipsets) receive vendo… text/html 2010-05-02T11:56:47+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:network&rev=1272801407&do=diff This article is intended as a reference guide to network card configuration in Slackware. The network scripts themselves are well-documented (inside the scripts) but there is not much other written end-user documentation about what you put into the configuration files. The Network Configuration chapter in the Slackware Linux Essentials book explains in generic terms how Slackware's network configuration works, and how the use of DHCP (dynamic IP address assignment) differs from static IP's. I w… text/html 2010-02-25T22:30:47+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:nx&rev=1267137047&do=diff Linux Terminal Services using NX and FreeNX ---------- Troubleshooting Error message Server not installed or NX access disabled If you see the following error message it means that the nx user's public key was not accepted.: NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 6721 NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files NX> 200 Connected to address: 192.168.2.21 on port: 22 NX> 202 Authenticating user: nx NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey NX> 204 Authentication … text/html 2008-02-21T21:55:54+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:parentalcontrol&rev=1203630954&do=diff Introduction It is fascinating to observe how children take things for granted where their parents need many years to get used to them ... take computers and the Internet for instance. Kids are so much more savvy with the computer that it becomes increasingly more difficult for parents to understand and value their kids' activities on the Internet. The results are not always that positive - children should be protected from some of the darker sides of the Internet. It already helps if parents … text/html 2006-06-16T22:47:33+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:proxy&rev=1150498053&do=diff Introduction This article describes the setup of a http proxy chained to a content filter (think “parental control” for instance). There are many cases, where is not desirable to grant unlimited Internet access to certain groups of people. The most obvious group are children, either at home, in schools or public libraries, whom you want to protect from hitting upon too explicit imagery or language. Or perhaps you just want to block certain sites from them. Other uses for a content-filtering… text/html 2009-05-19T14:22:53+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:pxe&rev=1242742973&do=diff When the time comes to install Slackware on your computer, you have a limited number of options regarding the location of your Slackware packages. Either you install them from the (un)official Slackware CDROM or DVD, or you copy them to a pre-existing hard disk partition before starting the installation procedure, or else you fetch the packages from a NFS server, FTP or HTTP server. text/html 2008-09-01T11:04:51+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:qemu&rev=1220267091&do=diff Hardware virtualization with QEMU If you want to experience the kick of looking at a Windows boot screen in a desktop window while you're working in Slackware, read this article on the advancements in open source solutions for hardware virtualization - aka running a computer inside a computer. text/html 2006-03-18T22:20:45+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:rc_scripts&rev=1142720445&do=diff Slackware rc scripts I have contributed to a few of the rc scripts that ship with Slackware. Most notably, I worked at enhancing wireless support and better network configuration, the results of which are part of rc.inet1 and rc.wireless and their configuration files. I also created or modified other scripts for /etc/rc.d/, and I have put them all together on my Slackware site. text/html 2008-09-11T11:52:10+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:rt2xxx&rev=1221133930&do=diff The rt2x00 project Wireless cards based on RaLink's chipsets are very well-suited for Linux computers. RaLink actively supports Linux and the Open Source community by releasing the code for a driver and configuration utility. Based on that code, re-developed drivers for these cards are hosted at <http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com>. These drivers (although still in beta) are working well and are quite stable. They are different from other modern wireless drivers in that they have built-in WPA supp… text/html 2006-03-29T19:27:42+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:samba&rev=1143660462&do=diff FIXME This article is being worked on FIXME ---------- File- and printersharing on the local network Suppose you are living in a household with Windows and Linux computers scattered all over the place. How are you going to share all the data across those Operating Systems? Running up the stairs with USB sticks is only so much fun. Here is where Linux shines (yeah I know you can setup a Windows server, but you'll have to pay the price for that). In this article, I will try to explain ho… text/html 2007-08-01T09:09:26+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:sas&rev=1185959366&do=diff FIXME text/html 2008-01-23T13:21:38+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:setup&rev=1201094498&do=diff Install to Logical Volumes (LVM) FIXME Encrypted partitions FIXME Installation to encrypted partitions works well with the stock Slackware kernels. If you want to compile your own custom kernel to work with LUKS encrypted partitions you need to enable at least the following two options in your kernel configuration: text/html 2009-08-14T15:13:03+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:slackware&rev=1250262783&do=diff SLACKWARE I will use this Wiki to share the things I learnt over the years, and make Slackware even easier to learn and understand. My articles will be for beginners as well as experienced system administrators. The topics will vary greatly, and I welcome your input, and questions for me to write about specific topics. text/html 2008-11-18T16:30:33+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:usbboot&rev=1227025833&do=diff usbboot.img/usb-and-pxe-installersREADME_USB.TXTREADME_PXE.TXT README Introduction [USB logo] Recently I have been exploring the Slackware installer, and especially looking for ways to use the installer other than running it from a CDROM/DVD. In a previous wiki article I detailed my experiences with creating a PXE installer that you can use if your computer is able to do a network boot. This is also fondly called PXE boot. This was fun, and it was the end of using CDROMs for my Slackware in… text/html 2007-11-30T21:42:19+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:vde&rev=1196458939&do=diff A networking powerhouse QEMU, VDE and Dnsmasq In another Wiki article I talk about using the virtualization software called QEMU as an Open Source alternative to the commercial / closed source VMWare. QEMU needs a little help and tweaks of your computer environment to give it some of the capabilities VMWare has. In this Wiki page I will show you how to use the power of Linux software collaboration and setup a network environment where you can use your Virtual Machine inside QEMU as if it we… text/html 2009-06-19T19:40:00+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:wikinotes&rev=1245440400&do=diff Setting up Alien's DokuWiki Here's what I had to do to get the Wiki up and running. Remember that the DokuWiki has no need for a database server like MySQL. The Wiki pages, indexes and archives are stored as files below the DokuWiki root (or anyplace else if you want to separate the content from the code). This makes it ideal to install in your own home directory. You do not need any additional permissions on the webserver. text/html 2008-09-09T23:07:24+00:00 http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:wpa&rev=1221001644&do=diff WPA encryption My Wiki article about Slackware's network configuration contains a special section about setting up WPA encryption.