ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 29, Issue 119
The Master of Disaster
iamthemasterofdisaster at gmail.com
Fri Jan 12 07:47:07 UTC 2007
I'm having trouble downloading Ubuntu (ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso). I've
downloaded the image three times now. The first time I burned it without
hash checking the ISO. The installer said there was "one errors" on the disk
and it would hang at login. I chocked it up to
a bad burn but later learned about the MD5 check. WinMD5sum says that the
hashes are different. So I downloaded it again. When it got to 99%
DownThemAll (the download manager I use which is a Firefox add-on) informed
me that my disk was full, which was true because I forgot to delete the old
ISO (this one would have overwritten the old, corrupt one upon completion).
I deleted some other things and made about 800MB of free space available. To
my frustration it caused the download to start from the beginning. The 3rd
download got to 100% and DownThemAll hanged. After a few minutes of being
unable to start, pause, or cancel (all of the buttons were greyed out) I
clicked "remove completed tasks, which removed Ubuntus download, presumably
because it was complete. I performed another winMD5sum check and discovered
that this one too is messed.
Do the United States download servers not allow download managers?
Am I not using winMD5sum properly?
I really don't want to keep re-downloading the image because it takes 10+
hours and cannot be left unattended because the download times out every
once in a while.
Is there an officially supported torrent for ubuntu-6.10-desktop-i386.iso? I
at least know that I can download large files with that, and probably faster
than with FTP.
Thanks in advance for helping a Linux newbie!
~PowerUser
P.S. When I reply to an email i can't change the subject in gmail, any
hints?
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> 1. Re: Wireless network configuration (Scott Kitterman)
> 2. Re: Wireless network configuration (Jeffrey F. Bloss)
> 3. Re: Wireless network configuration (Jeffrey F. Bloss)
> 4. Re: Wireless network configuration (James Englert)
> 5. Re: Wireless network configuration (Jeffrey F. Bloss)
> 6. gdm failure? (John Dangler)
> 7. Re: Wireless network configuration (Jeffrey F. Bloss)
> 8. Uninstalling Ubuntu (Mugarura Emmanuel)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 1:16:28 -0500
> From: Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless network configuration
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:05:30 +0700 Chanchao <custom at freenet.de> wrote:
> >On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 23:55 -0600, James Englert wrote:
> >
> >> is I am completely unable to get my computer to connect to the
> >> wireless connection when the key is set. I have tried numerous options
> >> and programs yet am unable to get it to work. The network key is a
> >> 64bit 10 digit hex key. The key is 0123456789. My network setup is
> >> (in /etc/network/interfaces)
> >
> >Why fight it with all those config file / command line mystical
> >incantations, install network-manager-gnome, let go, and let it take
> >care of things. (This installs as an applet in any toolbar)
> >
> >Make sure to specify WEP 64 bit Hex as the key type when connecting to
> >the network.
> >
> >> iface wlan0 inet dhcp
> >> wireless-channel 8
> >> wireless-mode managed
> >> wireless-essid dlink
> >> wireless-key 0123456789
> >> allow-hotplug wlan0
> >> auto wlan0
> >
> >Don't even know what any of that means.. For sure you don't need it.
> >
> >> Can anyone see anything wrong with that configuration because I sure
> >> can't? Does anyone know of any tools help set-up wireless networks. I
> >> have tried network-admin and NetworkManager and was unsuccessful with
> >> both.
> >
> >There's a bunch.. I think the current one that I'm talking about is
> >installed as network-manager-gnome, version 0.6.3, but in the About box
> >it actually calls itself NetworkManager Applet.
> >
> >Also of course re-check the setup on your WiFi router, and that the
> >correct type of encryption is specified. (WEP)
>
> FWIW, while WEP is sigificantly better than no encryption, it should not
> be
> considered cryptographically secure. WPS-PSK is a much better bet. It is
> actually simpler to set up than WEP IME.
>
> I use Kubuntu, so the front end I use is Knetworkmanager. I found WPA
> work
> out of the box, but I had to use Wiresslanmanager for WEP (before I
> upgraded my relative's network over the holidays).
>
> Scott K
>
>
>
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>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:19:48 -0500
> From: "Jeffrey F. Bloss" < jbloss at tampabay.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless network configuration
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: < 20070112011948.50d1e7a7 at chisel>
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> James Englert wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to setup a wireless network connection on my PC. I
> > have successfully set up my network adapter using ndiswrapper and can
> > connect and use the wireless network when it has no key set. Its a
> > bad idea not to have a key on the network so I set one. The problem
> > is I am completely unable to get my computer to connect to the
> > wireless connection when the key is set. I have tried numerous
>
> <snippage>
>
> Assuming you already know WEP is horridly insecure, and your router(?)
> supports WPA, this howto should help...
>
>
> http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-wireless-access-point-in-ubuntu-linux.html
>
> --
> _?_ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
> (o o) Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
> -oOO-(_)--OOo-------------------------------[ Groucho Marx ]--
> grok! Registered Linux user #402208
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:29:34 -0500
> From: "Jeffrey F. Bloss" < jbloss at tampabay.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless network configuration
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> Chanchao wrote:
>
> > Make sure to specify WEP 64 bit Hex as the key type when connecting to
> > the network.
> [...]
> > Also of course re-check the setup on your WiFi router, and that the
> > correct type of encryption is specified. (WEP)
>
> The problem with WEP is that it's insecure. It's better than nothing if
> your hardware doesn't support WPA+TKIP, but if you have the choice you
> should always choose the latter.
>
> --
> _?_ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
> (o o) Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
> -oOO-(_)--OOo-------------------------------[ Groucho Marx ]--
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 00:30:17 -0600
> From: "James Englert" < englert.james at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless network configuration
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> < ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Thanks for the reply. I'll try wpa out. I'm not really concerned with
> security per se. I just don't want people accessing the network and
> downloading a bunch of crap.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 1/12/07, Jeffrey F. Bloss < jbloss at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > James Englert wrote:
> >
> > > I am attempting to setup a wireless network connection on my PC. I
> > > have successfully set up my network adapter using ndiswrapper and can
> > > connect and use the wireless network when it has no key set. Its a
> > > bad idea not to have a key on the network so I set one. The problem
> > > is I am completely unable to get my computer to connect to the
> > > wireless connection when the key is set. I have tried numerous
> >
> > <snippage>
> >
> > Assuming you already know WEP is horridly insecure, and your router(?)
> > supports WPA, this howto should help...
> >
> >
> > http://www.debianadmin.com/enable-wpa-wireless-access-point-in-ubuntu-linux.html
>
> >
> > --
> > _?_ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
> > (o o) Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
> > -oOO-(_)--OOo-------------------------------[ Groucho Marx ]--
> > grok! Registered Linux user #402208
> >
> >
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:42:32 -0500
> From: "Jeffrey F. Bloss" < jbloss at tampabay.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless network configuration
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Scott Kitterman wrote:
>
> > FWIW, while WEP is sigificantly better than no encryption, it should
> > not be considered cryptographically secure. WPS-PSK is a much better
> > bet. It is actually simpler to set up than WEP IME.
>
> I'd be inclined to rewrite part of that paragraph to "should not be
> considered secure against any script kiddie savvy enough to download
> and install common programs like kismet and aircrack".
>
> You might be shocked to find out just how popular those types of tools
> are now that so many people run wireless at home. Of course I was
> surprised the other evening when I took a stroll around my neighborhood
> and within about a quarter a mile radius found about 40 access points,
> almost exactly half running no encryption at all. Two of those I can
> see from anywhere in my house full time.
>
> Makes me wonder why I bother paying for Internet access. ;)
>
> --
> _?_ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
> (o o) Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
> -oOO-(_)--OOo-------------------------------[ Groucho Marx ]--
> grok! Registered Linux user #402208
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:53:40 -0500
> From: John Dangler < jdangler at atlantic.net>
> Subject: gdm failure?
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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> I did a synaptic upgrade today. All of a sudden, I'm logged out of
> gnome and taken back to the gdm login. I look in preferences, thinking
> that a session time out has somehow been set. I'm looking in the
> screensavers, and I notice its random. I start looking at the
> individual screensavers starting from the bottom of the installed
> screensavers list. I come to an entry (I don't which one it is), and I
> am logged out again.
>
> Now, since that entry was the last entry I selected, every time I go
> into screensavers under system->preferences, I am immediately logged
> out!
>
> Every time i'm sitting idle in gnome long enough for the screensaver to
> launch, I'm immediately logged out!!
>
> Can someone here point me as to where this is stored so I can change it
> and find the borked screensaver ???
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:57:06 -0500
> From: "Jeffrey F. Bloss" <jbloss at tampabay.rr.com >
> Subject: Re: Wireless network configuration
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <20070112015706.541e97d7 at chisel>
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> James Englert wrote:
>
> > Thanks for the reply. I'll try wpa out. I'm not really concerned with
> > security per se. I just don't want people accessing the network and
> > downloading a bunch of crap.
>
> I hear that. An unsecured wireless is an open invitation for people to
> bad things while appearing to be you.
>
> WEP is better than nothing. It at least means an "attacker" has to
> exert some effort to connect. Might take a couple minutes, but if they
> want in they'll get in. Still, it should keep your neighbor from
> "accidentally" using your Internet connection. ;)
>
> --
> _?_ Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
> (o o) Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
> -oOO-(_)--OOo-------------------------------[ Groucho Marx ]--
> grok! Registered Linux user #402208
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> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 10:02:58 +0300
> From: "Mugarura Emmanuel" < emugarura at muwrp.org>
> Subject: Uninstalling Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Hello there.
>
> i need to uninstall Ubuntu, then install Windows Server 2003 then Dual
> boot
> it with Ubuntu again, but i cant seem to get started. On inserting my
> WinServer bootable CD, nothing happens,
>
> i need some help in having to format my hard disk so that i can start from
> there.
>
> Is there any one who can help?
>
> Emmanuel
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