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Kali linux internet suddenly working
I have been running Kali linux on vmplayer and internet was not working on it. But suddenly today it started working. I didn't install any compat drivers and my laptop is not hooked up to ethernet but ...
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Wifi not working
I just dual-booted windows 7 with Debian 7, during the installation it said the wifi firmware was missing so I installed without an internet connection, after the installation I got my LAN cable to ...
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Mint 15 on Lenovo G700: wired internet not working (Atheros QCA8172)
Mint 15 doesn't see internet after installing it in dualboot with windows 8 (in Windows internet works well). My network card is Qualcomm Atheros QCA8172 Fast Ethernet (rev 10).
What I did:
Install ...
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Can not connect wirelessly to internet in CrunchBang 10
I am trying to install Crunch Bang 10 on a clients computers. The problem is, wireless internet is not working. Internet on the computer has worked before when it had Lubuntu on it. I have wired ...
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Broadcom wireless card in with Fedora 16
I just installed Fedora as a dual-boot (other OS in Win7) on my Dell Inspiron 1750 and, of course, the wireless card is missing firmware.
The wireless card is called Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN ...
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CentOS 6.5 in virtual box : can't install any package
I have just installed CentOS 6.5 on my virtualbox. I wanted to install the GUI, using this command :
yum groupinstall -y 'X Window System'
but it gave me the following error message : "couldn't ...
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RHEL 7.0 can't connect to internet
I'm setting up a new RHEL 7.0 installation (we're running the trial), but I can't get it to connect to the internet from command line. I'm trying to add these repos, as I currently have 0 installed, ...
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How to use a dongle as HotSpot on Linux?
I'm running Linux on a virtual machine on MAC OS. Currently, I've written a script to use a dongle to connect to a WiFi network and use web services.
Now, I am looking to use my dongle as a WiFi ...
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Spoof current MAC address to a known address to trick router and register device
I want to connect to a device to the internet, a Roku player, that has its own MAC address.
The network that I currently have access to requires that I login using my credentials prior to being ...
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Monitor internet for dropouts
I've been having issues with my wifi with frequent drop outs. So I've decided to check if the drop outs are wifi related or internet related by connecting my laptop via ethernet and monitoring it for ...
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How to connect to wifi after the installation of Scientific Linux 6.5
I just installed Scientific Linux 6.5, but it seems there is no way to connect to internet. How can I search and connect to wireless internet in my apartment?
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Why do I have to disconnect and connect for internet all the time?
Currently, I have to disconnect and connect again to use the internet for my Linux computer. It works fine for my tablet.
Do you know what could be the reason for that?
When I use the internet for ...
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Connecting one network interface to the Internet disconnects the other interface
We have got an HP-UX server, but whenever I got connected to that machine using the ethernet cable I got disconnected from internet although my laptop has 2 nw interfaces. One wired one wireless. Why? ...
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Why can't I ping Google?
I can't ping google.com (unknown host). But I can ping IP addresses. I tried to ping the IP address of Google but it doesn't work.
resolv.conf
nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver 209.139.209.33
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Host unreachable and I do not get why
I can not open a specific website. This is a website hosted by our company, and I know it is up. However, these are my symptoms:
VARIABLES:
host.com - the website I can not open
x.x.x.x - the IP of ...
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Debian Wheezy subnet configuration (proxy, MASQUARADing etc.)
I have a "server" with eth1 having a full IP address, DNS, gateway and proxy name connected to the university internet/intranet provider and eth0 IP 192.168.1.2 connected by a gigabit switch with two ...
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Blocking Websites with /etc/hosts
There's a website, www.example.com, that I tried to block myself from accessing because it wastes too much of my time. So I configured my /etc/hosts file. I added the following lines, to block the ...
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Enabling wired internet connection with dhcp during Arch Linux Installation? [duplicate]
From what I read, wired internet should work out of the box during the Arch installation. However, I'm having difficulties. The dhcpcd service is running, but it says:
# systemctl status ...
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Resolve filename from a remote URL without downloading a file
I am creating a script, which should download latest version of an application from repository and deploy the app.
The main issue: there are several repositories and I need to check, which of them ...
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Can't connect to steam
I've just installed Steam on my computer, created a Steam account and tried clicking on the steam icon to load it. It gave me the following error and then shuts down:
If I type steam in the ...
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How can I bind together several wifi adapters into one internet connection?
I would like to get around an unnecessary and extremely tight (20k) speed cap per wifi client on a wifi network providing internet. Each client passes through a captive portal that requires just ...
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testing sites on current Internet explorer on mint 16
I need a reliable way to perform compatibility testing for websites on IE 9+.
I'm running Mint 16 and have attempted WINE emulation but it doesn't appear to have a current version.
I would prefer a ...
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DHCP lease acquired , yet no ping, not even to default gateway
I've just installed Debian Wheezy on my PC using netinstall.
I can only use its wifi. My interface has been recognize by the system, and I've used:
iwconfig wlan0 essid MY_HOME_AP
(I've switched ...
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Serve Internet to remote machine via SSH session?
The machine via which I'm SSHing to the remote/host machine (same network/LAN) has access to the Internet but the host doesn't.
Running updates and installing packages on the host gets quite ...
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VPN piggybacked on two mobile phone wifi hotspots
I cannot get 1Gbps at home, so instead of wasting money on slow landline internet with extra traffic limits and ridiculous overage fees, only to wait in the console until my stuff downloads/uploads, ...
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Internet connection help
So I just installed Elementary OS, and everything works perfect except for internet, I can't connect to the internet whatsoever, I cant tether through my phone, cant use ethernet, and don't even get ...
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Problem with recursive download using wget
I am trying to learn how to use recursive download with wget from the wget info page.
For example, let us try to download all the images of xkcd. A list of all the pages is present in the xkcd ...
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Linux Mint 15 - Unable to connect to wireless
I have been using Linux Mint 12 for some time and I remember I had faced similar problems back then but that had been fixed by doing some research. However, this time around with the upgrade to 15, I ...
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Problem accessing Internet on Linux (kubuntu)
I am new to Linux (in fact just installed it last night). I am setting up my internet. I made a switch from Windows 7 to Linux in order to learn it.
On Windows 7 I was accessing the internet by ...
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Bluetooth: Unable to connect internet on laptop from Nokia N73
Earlier I had been doing Internet on laptop after connecting my Nokia N73 to laptop via bluetooth. But I'm not clear as to what happened a day that after that time I couldn't connect via bluetooth.
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How do you connect to the internet in backtrack 5 R2
I have recently installed backtrack 5 r2 so it dual-boots alongside windows. However for some reason I'm finding it difficult to make a wired connection using wicd. I know that the connection itself ...
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How to make Network alive but speed low, slow for upload, download?
I have own application written (Python, Java) which does upload/download for streaming.
Now in my local office network and home network setup i can't simulate slow/low latency network (as a result i ...
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How does ifconfig find a machine's external IP address?
Normally when I want to check the external IP address of a given machine, I simply curl some external website that sends me a response telling me what my IP address appears to it. However, I've ...
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periodically can't access google
On a daily basis, at around the same time each day (early morning and early afternoon), my computer stops being able to access google or any sites that use google code (including sites that use google ...
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Internet not working
I am using Linux mint. And this is my kernel.
uname -a
Linux nithesh-desktop 3.8.0-19-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 17 18:16:28 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I was having a networking ...
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Cannot connect to internet in Fedora 19
I am brand new to linux and am unable to connect to the internet in Fedora 19. When I type ifconfig I get:
lo: flags=73 mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 ...
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How to update Broadcom driver in Arch Linux?
I have been having issues with my broadcom wireless driver, and from what I have seen, most people online say I need to update the driver.
How do I update the driver? Most tutorials use apt-get but ...
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Hotspot and Internet access together — why not?
If I try to set up an hotspot in GNOME, I get the following message:
If you have a connection to the Internet other than wireless, you can use it to share your internet connection with others.
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Can't connect to a wireless network in Arch Linux netctl
I just installed arch linux on my laptop.
But after rebooting, I can't connect to the internet.
Wi-fi is the only available connection to me.
I used the command wifi-menu then after choosing my ...
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Arch Linux on Virtualbox Internet Connection Issue on VirtualBox
I have successfully installed Arch Linux on VirtualBox but the internet is not working in it.
There was no issue with the internet connection during the installation but when I boot from the virtual ...
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anonymous url navigation in command line?
Is there any way to anonymize http requests through the command line? In other words, is it possible to wget a page without the requester's IP showing up?
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Internet access via server
We have proxy-server and I run Linux Mint 15 Mate. I've set up network connection and Firefox prompts for login/pass and then connects to Internet. When trying to look for updates/new software, system ...
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Troubleshooting internet connectivity
Recently I see that I often lose internet connectivity on my Linux machines. I am starting to think that it may be a router problem, but I have no idea to check if this is indeed the problem.
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Get my country by IP in bash
I want to use the name of the country where I am now in a bash script. I can get the external IP using next command:
curl ifconfig.me
But how can I get my country name?
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Internet stopped working after installing Xfce on Arch
Let me preface this by saying I'm not experienced in any of this. I followed the in-depth beginners guide for installing Arch using VirtualBox.
I was able to install Arch just fine. After ...
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Networking not working on ubuntu server 12.10 on B75MA-P45 mobo
Just got some new parts to but together a local development server with Ubuntu server 12.10 and I can't get networking working.
I have an airport extreme for my router and it works find with CentOS ...
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Internet disappears regularly
About a month ago I installed the newest version of Linux Mint (14).
I use Linux the whole day on my laptop but every 1-2 hours my internet connection (Wi-Fi) magically disappears for about 10 ...
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Internet(ADSL) connection doesn't seem to be working on Arch
I've already set up ADSL and used it already for a system update, so I'm sure the set up is ok but pacman suddenly stopped working and when I checked ping wasn't working too. How can I find out what ...
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Problem in connecting server to Internet
I just have setup a Linux server. But currently I am having problem in connecting to the outside world. I am not able to do wget,apt-get or ping. Here ar some relevant details:
$ping google.com
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No internet access for system services; however, browser access works
Unable to reload repos via apt-get, aptitude, or synaptic. Dropbox does not connect or sync. Pithos does not connect to pandora.com. Chrome and Firefox browsers do work fine.
I have been unable to ...
