Debian 5.0

Installing Debian 5.0

Installing on an old IBM ThinkPad R32.

AptNotes
Conky
GKrellm
IPV6
NTFS
Pysol
Wireless

I now have a nice desktop with wired Internet. Screen resolution is perfect for this computer at 1024x768. Expect a round of updates and then a battle to get the wireless working. So far so good.

I will need to get port 22 opened so that I can use ssh to administer this box. To do that I've installed ssh and friends.

sudo apt-get install ssh

That done, I can now use ssh to administer the Debian laptop.

Added myself as a sudo user.

First update is complete and I've edited grub to my liking. Dual booting Debian 5 and Windows XP.

Apt Notes

apt-get install
apt-cache search

Wireless

This may be simple or it may be a bitch. Right now, having done nothing but the initial update, NetworkManager is showing several wireless access points, one of which is my own. Haven't tried to connect yet.

Based on my experience getting this wireless to work with Fedora 10 here's what I know. The modules for this wireless adapter are loaded.

lsmod | sort

This shows the relevant modules.

hermes
orinoco
orinoco_pci

lspci

This shows the wireless adapter.

02:07.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)

Right now, after a reboot, my wireless access point is not visible so I'm going to choose to connect to Other wireless network.

Wow! It worked, and it has a 192.168.x.x IP address! This might be good!

And today it stopped working. Don't know what happened. I made some changes to the system relevant to faster boot times and faster web browsing. Didn't think that I made any changes that would affect wireless. What a pain in the ass this particular wireless adapter is.

GKrellm

Installed GKrellm and friends.

sudo apt-get install gkrellm gkrellweather gkrellmwireless

Conky

Installed Conky.

sudo apt-get install conky

Configuration file is /etc/conky/conky.conf. Executable is /usr/bin/conky.

PySol

Install the PySol card game.

sudo apt-get install pysol

Disable IPV6

How to disable ipv6 for Debian.

Edit the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. Add the following line to the bottom of the file.

blacklist ipv6

Save and exit.

Edit the file (it may not exist) /etc/modprobe.d/00local. Add the following 2 lines.

alias net-pf-10 off
alias ipv6 off

Save and exit. Reboot and see if Internet browsing is faster.

NTFS Partitions

Install ntfs-3g.

sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Create a mount point for the partition you want to access.

sudo mkdir /media/sata500

Add a line to the bottom of the file /etc/fstab.

/dev/sda1    /media/sata500    ntfs-3g    defaults    0 0

Mount the partition.

sudo mount -a

Done!

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