Alien's Wiki - slackware

Mixed Sound with ARTS and ALSA

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2006-10-04T09:23:08+00:00

Mixed Sound with ARTS and ALSA A small HOWTO found at 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).

Printing with CUPS

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-02-14T21:46:17+00:00

Printing with CUPS 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

My notes about installing Slackware -current

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2007-03-18T14:14:58+00:00

My notes about installing Slackware -current 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.

Fixes for annoyances in Slackware

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-11-18T16:00:09+00:00

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:

Installing Madwifi on Slackware

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-11-19T11:23:28+00:00

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 Slac…

Adding Multilib Capability to Slackware on x86_64 Architecture

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-06-25T15:56:51+00:00

Adding Multilib Capability to Slackware on x86_64 Architecture 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 documents the optimal method to achieve a clean separation between 64bit and 32bit software on a single system. When starting with the development of

Using ndiswrapper for unsupported wireless cards

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-09-11T11:39:26+00:00

Using ndiswrapper for unsupported wireless cards 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

Configuring your network in Slackware

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2017-08-08T20:12:33+00:00

Configuring your network in Slackware 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

Linux Terminal Services using NX and FreeNX

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2010-02-25T22:30:47+00:00

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 fa…

Parental control on the Linux desktop

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-05-18T13:27:56+00:00

Parental control on the Linux desktop 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

Transparent Proxy with contentfilter

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2006-06-16T22:47:33+00:00

Transparent Proxy with contentfilter 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.…

PXE: Installing Slackware over the network

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-05-19T14:22:53+00:00

PXE: Installing Slackware over the network 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

Hardware virtualization with QEMU

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-09-01T11:04:51+00:00

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

Slackware rc scripts

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2006-03-18T22:20:45+00:00

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.

The rt2x00 project

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-09-11T11:52:10+00:00

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

File- and printersharing on the local network

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2018-11-21T21:07:55+00:00

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.

Slackware Asian Support

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2007-08-01T09:09:26+00:00

Slackware Asian Support FIXME

The Slackware installer

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-01-28T19:34:44+00:00

The Slackware installer 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:

SLACKWARE

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-08-14T15:13:03+00:00

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.

Install Slackware using a bootable USB stick

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-11-27T13:20:10+00:00

Install Slackware using a bootable USB stick 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

A networking powerhouse

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2007-11-30T21:42:19+00:00

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 wer…

Setting up Alien's DokuWiki

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2009-06-19T19:40:00+00:00

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.

WPA encryption

Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) — 2008-09-09T23:07:24+00:00

WPA encryption My Wiki article about Slackware's network configuration contains a special section about setting up WPA encryption.