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Can´t access internet via wireless connection though i am connected to wlan. This is the main problem right now and think has to do with the additional drivers somehow?

Hi All,

I just installed 11.10 on my old Acer Extensa 5230E but have some problems with the wireless connection. I found that this has something to do with the additional drivers which are not...

Hey i tought i just metion this. I had some problems with instaling updates on a new ubuntu install on a win7 PC. I already had ubuntu on another PC and all updates were downloading fine. What i saw...

The solution metioned caused a black screen after rebooting. What i did is to reinstall fglrx and the screen displayed correct after rebooting. Hope this helps. I had this error on a Win7 desktop PC...

Hi Sudodus,

Thanks for pointing that out. I appreciate your help very much.

This means it is set to execute, check out: File Permissions

Thanks Agillator,

This gives me even more peace of mind. On Windows you can get drive by'd and not even know it. Will definitely help out if i am able to.

Sudodus, by this i mean the permissions for a certain file or files. Check out CHMOD for more

Thanks Sudodus. That did it. I did noticed that some files are set to CHMOD (1). What files are absolutely needed to be (1)? I don't want to make changes that will break or cause the system to...

How can i check permissions for files and if they have execute permission and how to change that? I was reading File permissions but i get command not found when, for example, entering -rw-r--r--

A lot of men would be very happy if there was

Wow 2352 lines of even more information :) Thanks for the heads up HaqKing.

Thanks Jmszr. I appreciate that very much.

Agillator,

Thanks for the info. I am learning more on this at Iptables firewall tutorial It is a chunk of information though but i will get through it. I did get the TCPdump to log all connections...

Perfect. Just what i was looking for.

Thanks a million Charles. I just installed gufw and enabled ufw. This gives a bit more ease of mind knowing that a firewall is installed :) I will instal TCPdump also and see what rules are...

Hi Herman,

Thanks for replying. Does tcpdump give the ability to deny certain connections?

About the ps. When entering this in terminal if gives no output. I tried ps (username) but this gives...

Hi All,

I am new to Linux and found that Ubuntu is a good place for beginners to start. I managed to virtualize my mac via vmware and have installed 11.10. What tools do you recommend regarding...