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08-25-2003
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Re: What is the best Linux setup?
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Redhat distros provide lots of configuration GUIs, so they are good choice for the easily frustrated. Slackware is generic and a good distro to really learn. |
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08-25-2003
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Master of the universe
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: chicago
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slackware is hardly generic
slackware boasts being the most unix like distro and i believe them. very few guis and lots of learning if u wanna config it right its one of those jump in and get alot more than your feet wet distro's
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08-25-2003
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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I have the knoppix-std CD
I cant get it to boot up I think I have a hardware issue... I got the plain jane knoppix CD... I cant get my orinoco to work with the airsnort... thought maybe there was a trick to the Live cd installs??? |
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08-25-2003
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Apologies for the newbiesque questions, I don't think you're a being a noob, just starting from the ground up. |
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08-25-2003
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yes I got it to boot up on another laptop and on a desktop...
no problems there....I can boot to cd on the laptop Ive been there done that.... It may be my Compaq armada M300 because I can load the stock knoppix fine fromCD.... I just cant get the airsnort to work...  |
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08-25-2003
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Agoura Hills, CA
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if you want to use airsnort with an orinoco card, you need to patch the orinoco drivers so that your card can be put into monitor mode. wow, im surprised nobody flamed you guys and said 'this has been said before', but i believe forums are meant to help people not to tell people to do searches, so here is a link
http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html also, ive never used knoppix before is it a read only FS? if so, i dont see how youre gonna be able to apply this patch.. or i could be wrong and everything will work fine. good luck. |
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08-25-2003
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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I hate to be called a dumb ass...
I am trying to convert to linux... can someone spell out how to install the patch? Sorry for my moronic behaviour but I AM Making an effort to go to linux... I just cant get on to the net so I have to use 2 computers at the moment... I have a copy of mandrake here I can install...anythign THanks! |
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08-26-2003
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Join Date: Aug 2003
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here is a quote from the site i gave you:
For those unfamiliar with applying patches, the command looks something like this when applied from the parent directory of your pcmcia-cs source tree: patch -p0 < orinoco-09b-packet-1.diff hope that helps  |
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08-26-2003
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Julie Speed
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BTW, I would rather see these type of questions instead of the "omifreakinggod, my card doesn't work and why is Marius the mean wireless uberlord with poor communication skills?" |
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08-26-2003
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Thanks
I found that and Im trying to do it... I try to drag the files where they need to go and says I have no permission to do so...then that is it. I dont know how to copy files to locked directories with lilo yet. damn it I want off my windoz machine... |
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08-26-2003
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Files and directory are not "locked", they have permissions. This is not the best link but here are some basic commands. You want to use chmod to change permissions. If you don't know how to use a command use man, i.e. man chmod, which gives you a listing of options and how to use the command. For example, if you want to make a directory and all of the files and directories inside readable, writeable, and executable: chmod -R 777 /your/dir Typically, you will need to be root to do this and you probably don't want to do this all the time because it means everything is open to everybody. When I used to teach, I recommended Harley Hahn's book "A Student's Guide to Unix" I would also recommend "Running Linux" (as do many others). Used copies of either work just as well as the newest edition. |
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08-31-2003
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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OK...
after hours and hours of tooling around.... I think I almost got it... BUT I still need help... I have installed... the orinoco driver and the patch libpcap kismet and airsnort... the problem I have is this...I start airsnort and it still tells me it could not start monitor mode...HOWEVER... if I do iwpriv eth1 I have as one of the lines... monitor (8be8) :set 2 int & get 0 anf if I do ifconfig eth1 sats link encap: unspec ALSO if I go to run kismet... I get a few errors... Fatal  ump file error:unable to open dump file Kismet-Aug31-2003-1.dump (permission denied)Starting UI Fatal could not connect to localhost 2501. ANY IDEAS??? Help? Thanks |
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08-31-2003
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Never mind the kismet part...
I got that working per this thread... http://forums.netstumbler.com/showth...ht=kismet+2501 BUT Why cant I get airsnort to work???? Thanks |
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