This tag covers anything related to home networking, errors using the official repositories, clouds and system administration. This tag also covers simple internet access issues.
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13.04 Downloads speeds are impossible!
I am a long time Widows user but am now determined to leave Windows behind - that is, if Ubuntu is a more usable OpSys. I have installed 13.04 on a new system that has a fast processor (4.2 gig) and ...
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Networking with Multiple Nics
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 server with
4 nics in it.
I need to use each nic for a separate
function. Here is a description of my
setup:
etho =
10.234.0.2 netmask = 255.255.255.252 gw = ...
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vmbox having issues connection after image update
I updated my linux-header-3.5.0-32-generic to linux-header-3.5.0-34-generic(without generic my wifi driver isn't working) and after rebooting, my vm can't connect with a wifi network anymore. There ...
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How to share files using a Wireless Network?
I have a desktop (Ubuntu 13.04 & Win 7 Home Premium) and a Laptop (Ubuntu 12.04), both having WiFi adapters. I also have a WiFi router connected to internet which both my computers can access.
I ...
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Ubuntu Software Center states ''No network connection" in reviews, but internet available elsewhere
My computer is connected to the internet via mobile broadband. But when opening Ubuntu Software Center and want to read reviews it says no network connection, connect to the internet to see more ...
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Transparent proxy across vlans
I am trying to set up a transparent squid proxy but i think i am over thinking the problem.
Here is the setup.
So vlan 1 will be the main one that connects to the internet and lets say anything on ...
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How to automatically bring up interfaces/bridges once they go down in Ubuntu
I have an Ubuntu host. I have installed openvswitch on that. I have created bridges like br-int, br-tun on that. What I observed is that after some time/duration, these bridges does down and I have to ...
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Network eth0 RJ45 does not connect after sleep mode in Xubuntu 12.04
After I sleep down my notebook (Xubuntu 12.04) and wake up, my network setting goes often corrupted and does not work. Only solution seems to be restart.
Connecting and disconnecting in network ...
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how do i get internet access on my android virtual machine using a wireless connection on my linux host machine?
I am using an android virtual machine with VirtualBox and a linux host which accesses the internet via a wireless wifi connection. How do I get my android virtual machine to access the internet?
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Access to internet/connection sharing client
I have setup an internet/connection sharing in my computer (192.168.0.2) as
Sharing Connection to other PCs (Via Wired Ethernet). I wonder how to access to client (10.x.x.x) from other computer ...
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Ubuntu - Internet isnt working nor popping up
I am COMPLETELY new to Ubuntu, like literally, I only know a few commands and stuff for terminal.. I recently installed it into my laptop to learn it more but for some odd reason my wifi wont pick up, ...
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setup an intranet website
I am working on a database driven website and want to test it using the LAN available to me. How do I host a website? (Static pages will also do)
I tried using php and it works on my system but not ...
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Open port to 6667 in Linux Mint [closed]
So I am trying to use an IRC service to play Magic The Gathering, online and I have to open to port 6667 otherwise I get a connection error in IRC that says: unable to
connect:null
Can anyone tell ...
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Ubuntu 12, how to disable IPv6 permanently?
How can we disable IPv6 system wide via terminal commands?
I've read editing /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
and replacing
alias net-pf-10 ipv6
with:
alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off
is this safe ...
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Is there a program to see channels used by wifi networks (similar to Vistumbler) in Ubuntu?
I need to see the channels used by all wifi networks in range in order to improve my wifi connection by selecting the channel to be used by my modem (a procedure related to the 'freebox' modem).
In ...
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Wired network connected crashed after retarting
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and everthing was working fine. I restarted the computer today morning and the Wired network stopped working. I am using static ip address and the /etc/network/interfaces has ...
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Configure a specific launch of an application to use specific network connection?
There's a tool called torsocks that can be prepended to an application call (ie, torsocks wget) that will route all web calls of the application through a socks proxy.
Is there an equivalently ...
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No internet connection when try to install Ubuntu 12.04
Currently Windows 7 is running on my PC.
When i boot to Windows -> connected to the internet.
When i try to install Ubuntu 12.04 and boot from the installation CD -> "Disconnected - You are now ...
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Same ip settings for multiple Wifi Connection
I am using college wifi. There are many access points in the college. Each have different name and different mac addresses. College provides static IP address for each user. So I need to set the ip ...
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how to find 3g modem signal strength with out AT commands?
when i try to find signal strength of my modem using AT+CSQ, the usb device is locked by the network manager. To find the signal strength with AT+CSQ i have to first disable network connection using ...
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Ethernet connection drops intermittently in ubuntu 13.04
During the last couple of days, I have noticed that my ethernet connection drops about once every 5 minutes. The connection has worked for a number of years without problems before that. I am running ...
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Network connection broken after attempting to setup home server
I decided to try to set up my old desktop as a home server for a learning experience. I followed the tutorial here.
I couldn't get my laptop to connect through the Squid proxy, and eventually gave ...
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OpenVPN - Routing issue
Server: Ubuntu 11 (Openvz VPS)
Client: Windows 7
Issue:
clients connect successfully to VPN, but loss of internet access once
inside the VPN.
Facts:
Everything mostly defaults
Is a ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 Dell 6400 no network
I have just installed Ubuntu 12.04. My network is not working: no wireless, no cable network. There are some posts on forums about it, however I was not able to fix it. It is possible to turn off ...
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internet works with ip address but not with website name
I just installed ubuntu on my laptop. I can't ping or open a site with it's name but everything works fine when i use IP address.
I already tested a few ways like disabling ipv6, changing dns server ...
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Wireless network connection in ubuntu 12.04
I am trying to connect my ubuntu laptop to wifi . It is displaying a hidden network .But when i try to connect to hidden wireless network, it gets failed.
In windows i can connect easily by selecting ...
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My D-Link DWM-156 doesn't work with SIM Card inserted
I have a D-Link DWM-156 HSPA Modem, that I bought just a few days ago. The modem has drivers in its internal storage. There are Debian Software Packages for both i386 and amd64, so obviously I ...
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Can't connect to 192.168.1.1 using TP-Link W8961ND Router [closed]
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and I bough a TP-Link W8961ND router on Snapdeal. I want to configure it, as per the instructions in the user manual. I tried connecting to 192.168.1.1which is the admin page ...
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Bluetooth tethering breaks DNS routing
Every time I use bluetooth to tether (via DUN) to my Samsung phone the DNS information is forced into other connections (WIFI/Ethernet). Turning off the connection (and bluetooth) doesn't seem to fix ...
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How do I launch a web browser on my local machine that visits websites through the ip of a remote machine?
So, I want to visit a website that only permits access to computers from certain ip domains. My ip is not from one of the allowed domains, but I've ssh'd into a (linux) machine at another location ...
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Change bridged network interface created by KVM install
I have recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS server and I chose to install Virtual Machine Host as one of the packages during install.
The server has an on-board NIC and a PCI NIC and during install, ...
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After downloading updates, wireless says it's connected but can't even ping router
I'm on an HP Envy 14 running Ubuntu 12.04. I downloaded a series of updates today, and now I'm having network issues.
After installing the updates, I started having trouble reaching any websites. I ...
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Trouble Connecting to WiFi Ubuntu 12.04
Other questions in this vein have not really addressed the issue or were so technical that I didn't know if they addressed the issue or not. Here is the problem: my WiFi was connecting just fine until ...
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Network connection not working
My network connections stopped working, I am unable to connect through a wireless connection, or through a wired one.
On the top bar, on network tab I get this message:
No network devices available
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Wireless networks keeps stopping data exchange
Recently, after a system update, my wireless network has being stopping to transfer data from some irregular time intervals that vary from 30 seconds to 20 minutes, and every time I need to plug off ...
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Problem with wi-fi connection for Ubuntu 13.04
I started using 13.04 about a month ago but i'm unable to connect to my wi-fi router properly. whenever i try to connect it takes long and even if it does, its very unstable and keeps getting ...
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Network manager stopped working randomly. Screen froze as well
I'm fairly new to Linux.
After having Ubuntu 13.04 installed, I had a USB wifi card as my Internet connection. After a few months, during normal use, the screen froze, made a buzzing sounds and all ...
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Can't delete files in network folder on Synology DS212 (Ubuntu 13.04)
When I right click and choose move to bin, a message pops up and says that the file can't be moved if I want to delete it instead. I want! Afterwards the file dissapears. A reload lets them reappear. ...
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Messed up with sysctl settings on Precise. Is there a way to restore defaults?
In a quest to improvise internet speed on my slow broadband, I messed up with the below tcp settings in sysctl.conf after following instructions from here. I edited the sysctl.conf, performed "sysctl ...
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How to connect to Squirrelmail server from client
i have setup a ubuntu 12.04 server in virtualbox using NAT networking settings. I have installed and configured squirrelmail, dovecot, postfix, bind, apache2 and php5 correctly. My problem is that i ...
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backtrack 5 wifi connction [closed]
I have Toshiba satellite C850-B884 laptop running windows 8 did dual boot with backtrack 5 32 bit. The problem is that backtrack can't recognize the WiFi card and I can't connect to the internet ...
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New to Ubuntu, how do I get drivers for my USB WiFi LAN Adapter?
so I have very little experience with Linux, let alone Ubuntu 13.04. I reformatted an old desktop of mine to boot Ubuntu 13.04, upon which I will be using as a mini-server to host VPSes. It will ...
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Can we manually throttle the bandwidth of a network interface?
Say I wish to have the interface eth0 to have a very low bandwidth.
Is it possible?
As may be evident from the question, I am trying to simulate a network with varying bandwidths.
I am using ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 NetworkManager / dnsmasq shared connection Ethernet reconnect loop
After rebooting my computer after the 13.04 do-release-upgrade NetworkManager has been unable to set up a shared connection between my laptop and desktop. Looking at /var/log/syslog I see that dnsmasq ...
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Internet settings on Huawei EC122 modem
I have a CPU= i686, Linux version 3.5.0-23-generic(build@atekato)...precise1. How can I configure/ install internet settings for Huawei EC122 modem
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I have a problem with my monitor mode for wireless
I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I need to shut down monitor mode for WiFi, but when I try to do that it always come up like this:
savko@savko-1015CX:~$ airmon-ng stop wlan0
airmon-ng: command not found
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Sending and Receiving multicast datagrams
I am sending a multicast datagram using the
Example: Sending multicast datagram
and
Example: Receiving multicast datagram
The sender is a linux container and receiver is a node in ns3 simulation.
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Not getting connected to wireless network in ubuntu 13.04
My Wi-fi was working perfectly fine in previous versions of Ubuntu.
After I installed 13.04 i find these problems:
Can detect home Wi-fi signal but can't connect. Keeps asking for password then ...
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What tool can I use to monitor a network of PCs?
I want my system to act as the central system for the rest of my network of 10 PCs. I also want to monitor what's going on, and monitor the activity of other systems. So how can I do this? What are ...
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Linux does not connect to wireless network under Hyper-V with Windows 8
I have a VM I am trying to run under Hyper-V on Windows 8 Pro. I am using an Asus PDE-N15 adapter on the host machine.
When I run Windows 8 in the VM it connects to the network and everything works. ...
