My Wifi Woes

[Ray Parrish]

Robert Holtzman wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Ray Parrish wrote:
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>> You may have to start Synaptic, and browse through the three available
>> Documentation sections on the left side in order to get them, but they
>> are definitely worth having. I have learned more about Linux in the past
>> few days of perusing these files, than I had in the last six months of
>> asking questions on this group. Get the Ubuntu documentation package,
>> the Linux docs,, and the Rute Book for a start, and you will have some
>> very good reference works.
>>
>> There are also some docs on hardening and securing your network, that
>> have taught me more than I ever knew about the internet before. Included
>> in on of them was a link to a web site online, where a guy was
>> explaining what different intrusion log entries in a Firewall log were
>> about, and how to tell which ones were actual attacks, and I now know a
>> lot more about how the hackers do things thanks to him. 8-)
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> How about some specific documentation package names?
>   
Ok, here they are -

doc-linux-html
doc-linux-nonfree-html
hal-doc  [Hardware abstraction layer]
harden-doc  [hardening your network to intrusion]
iproute-doc [Professional tools to control the networking in Linux kernels]
linux-doc
newbiedoc []
partimage-doc
policykit-doc  [PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling the 
policy that
allows unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.]
ubuntu-docs  [for this one you will need to also install the yelp 
package to view these files as they are in xml format]
user-mode-linux-doc
rutebook  [Linux: Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition]

That should give you something to read for a while. The ubuntu-docs 
package is huge, but you can't view it in your web browser as the xml 
files do not render as intended in a web browser. You must also install 
the package yelp to view this set of files. After you install the 
documentation files, point your web browser at this link to begin 
browsing the folder they will all be in. -

<file:///usr/share/doc/>

And here is a link to the site where the guy is talking about what 
different firewall log entires mean, and basically giving a mini 
tutorial on hacking into other computers.

<http://www.packetfactory.net/firewalk/firewalk-final.html>  [Firewalking]

He gives some very good tips on how to prevent intrusion into your system.

Later, Ray Parrish

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