Realtek wireless chip

2009-03-03 Thread Kevin Philp
I am having a few problems with my wireless connection and am coming to the conclusion its the driver. I am running Lenny with a pci wireless card with an RT2560F chipset - but I only get very slow speeds out of it <1M. I have checked everything else and now think its the driver - as anyone el

Re: POSSIBLE BREAK-IN in auth.log via ssh

2009-02-12 Thread Kevin Philp
SSH brute force attacks are very common - we get several a week. There are various methods for stopping them - a summary is in: http://www.security-hacks.com/2007/05/23/protecting-against-ssh-brute-force-attacks I suggest the following: 1. configure ssh to block all users apart from those you

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Kevin Philp
I would say "be very careful". It will work if the following are true: 1. All the drivers loaded on computer A are the same as required for computer B - do they have the same CPU/motherboard chipset/graphics card 2. Your partitions are the same and match up in FSTAB - be particularly careful

Re: Software for creating web page

2009-02-03 Thread Kevin Philp
Tom Ashley wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:56 -0800, Cahaya Lilin wrote: Hello all.. is there any one know what is a good software for creating web in linux like dreamweaver in windows ?? Thanx.. I've never used them but http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Linux_software_equivalen

Re: From x86 to x86-64

2009-01-30 Thread Kevin Philp
I think your best bet is to keep your home files on separate partition and reinstall everything else. There is no reason you can't have three partitions : 64 bit root, 32 bit root and a shared partition with /home on it. Kevin. tinkywinky wrote: Hello, I've installed x86 version of Lenny,

Re: Problems with installation of OpenOffice 3.0

2009-01-30 Thread Kevin Philp
Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: How can I know if I'm running 64 bit Debian? Javier Barroso wrote: just run "uname -r" Eduardo M KALINOWSKI writes: This will return the architecture of the kernel, but it is possible to run a 64-bit kernel w

Re: flash / iceweasel / all that

2009-01-29 Thread Kevin Philp
Glenn Becker wrote: You mean install_flash_player_10_linux.deb? I got that, installed it with "dpkg -i", and now have (squeezing out spaces): $ dpkg -l | grep flash ii adobe-flashplugin 10.0.15.3-1hardy1 Adobe Flash Player plugin version 10 Flash works perfectly. http://members.cox.net/

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Philp
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:00:37 + Kevin Philp wrote: A good package to install, to help with the brute force attacks is fail2ban. Even easier and better add the following to your iptables firewall. This monitors your connections to the ssh port and drops the

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Philp
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed January 28 2009, Kevin Philp wrote: Even easier and better add the following to your iptables firewall. This monitors your connections to the ssh port and drops the connection if they try more than 4 connections in 10 minutes. I have been using this for a while

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Philp
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 11:43:21 + Kevin Philp wrote: If you set up a home ssh server and expose it to the internet you will get brute force password break in attempts so make sure you restrict who can log in very tightly and deny root login access as a minimum. We also block

Re: ssh howto for debian?

2009-01-28 Thread Kevin Philp
thveillon.debian wrote: Daniel Dalton a écrit : Hi, Does anyone know of a howto for debian describing how to setup a home ssh server (with sshd)? Thanks, Daniel. Hi, While it's true that installing ssh is as simple as using aptitude, you may find useful to know a bit more: http:/

Re: RT2560F wireless

2009-01-22 Thread Kevin Philp
similar dialogue box but no signal strength and no connection. lsmod shows rt61pci module in available. Thanks Kevin. Celejar wrote: On Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:55:51 + Kevin Philp wrote: I have been using a computer with a wireless card with an RT2560F chip that works with network

RT2560F wireless

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Philp
I have been using a computer with a wireless card with an RT2560F chip that works with network manager on Ubuntu Intrepid but does not work under Debian Lenny. I am connecting to a wireless router with WPA-PSK. Does anyone have experience of this chip and how to get it working under Lenny?