New hdd, dvd-burner and a PCI Wifi card
Posted by Sayamindu 2 years, 1 month ago
My old 40 GB hard disk somehow got badly damaged (quite a few files in the /home partition were totally unaccessible), and so I decided to get a replacement. So on Staurday morning, Soumyadip and myself went to Chandni, and got the following items:
- A 250 GB SATA hard disk
- A DVD writer
- A PCI Wifi card (Linksys WMP54G)
I was a bit worried that the 3rd item might not be supported under Linux, but fortunately, it was nicely detected by Ubuntu (Dapper) and worked seamlessly with the rt2500 driver. In case any one is interested, lspci gives me:
0000:02:08.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11 Cardbus Reference Card (rev 01)
However, I still do not have a wireless access point at my home - so I have to remain content with an Ad-Hoc network at the moment. It works quite nicely for my purposes (mostly NAT, ssh and occasional NFS), so I’m quite happy. The only major PITA was to set the mode of the card to Ad-Hoc manually every time I rebooted - so after some manpage hunting - I stumbled across the manpage of wireless(7), which says:
In Debian 3.0 (and later) you can configure wireless LAN networking
devices using the network configuration tool ifupdown(8).File : /etc/network/interfaces
Form : wireless-<function> <value>
wireless-essid Home
wireless-mode Ad-Hoc
So everything is working seamlessly now - no cluttered up wires - no cat playing around with the CAT5 cable (pun intentional) and most importantly, no mom shouting at me, demanding that I remove the wire clutter from my room. Yipee!!! Freedom at last :-).
Hey how much did ya pay for the Hard Drive ?
INR 4K + VAT.
Jaata .. sabas smooth to
kintu PCI cardtar dam ta bol …
Urmi Ghosh ke poriye sheta uthbe …
Nice!
Nice!