Feb 28, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Configure Network Interface Using IFCONFIG

Introduction One of many useful commands to master as an administrator of Linux systems is the ifconfig command. Ifconfig command is used to configure network interfaces. Ifconfig is used to initialize the network interface and to enable or disable the interfaces. Common Uses Here are several common usages of ifconfig command. View Network Settings of an Ethernet Adapter Ifconfig, when invoked with no... read more

Feb 14, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Get Broadcom 4312 Wireless working on Fedora 23

Introduction Recently had the opportunity to Install Fedora 23 on a Dell Inspiron 1545. Installation went smooth for all except the wireless card was not detected. Doing a bit of digging was able to determine it was a Broadcon 4312 Wireless card. Process Here is how you can get the Broadcom BCM4312 to work. First you will need to install rpmfusion non-free repository as Fedora does not include the needed... read more

Dec 7, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Create Ftp Yum Repository On Fedora

Introduction There comes a time when you cannot connect to the internet to your favorite repository for installation of packages. Thankfully we can create our own YUM repositories to have them available locally on our networks. YUM stands for  Yellow Dog Modifier and is the Red Hat package manager that is able to query for information about available packages, fetch packages from repositories, install and... read more

Dec 2, 2015 Posted by newlife007

How To Remove SAN Attached LUNs from RHEL 5 Servers Using powermt

Introduction It is one of those rare occasions where you get to reclaim SAN attached storage instead of giving more. From the EMC side of it you would think no problem. Remove the host from the storage group and un-mount and re-scan on the host and all is good, right? Well no, up rises device in use or not found and powermt check command won’t work. So how do we do it? Read on and see. Steps Several... read more

Nov 30, 2015 Posted by newlife007

Managing Your Collections with DataCrow Server

Introduction Let’s face it, we collect things, many different things. One issue we have is keeping track of them, but with technology and many computers we have options at our disposal. One of many programs is DataCrow. I have written about this program years back and feel it needs revisited with improvements. DataCrow can be run in several different ways, portable, standalone and also as a client /... read more