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?
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Here are a couple more things that can really help you understand your 
system's details. I didn't do a very good search with that las t email.

procinfo  [Displays system information from /proc]
procps  [/proc file system utilities] /proc is where a representation of 
all of the running processes on your system reside, it's a kind of map 
to your ram's contents
bash-doc  [Documentation and examples for the The GNU Bourne Again 
SHell] This will help to learn the command line in Terminal.
debconf-doc  [additional documentation for Debconf, including the 
debconf user's guide]
linux-doc-2.6.24  [Linux kernel specific documentation for version 2.6.24]
manpages  [Manual pages about using a GNU/Linux system]

Now, that should be enough for one day. 8-) By the way, I tried to use 
Yelp to view those xml files, and it turns out Yelp is the default Help 
Browser in Ubuntu, and there is no method of loading external files into 
it, so whoever put that note at the repository about using it to browse 
them was full of it.

Keep in mind that most of the programs you install, will come with 
either html doc files, or man pages, so most of them you can look up on 
your system. Some however have very little documentation. Compiz was one 
that I found that had none available, so I had to find them on the web 
to look things up.

Later, Ray Parrish
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