Come installare NDISwrapper su ubuntu

Labels: Linux Operating System it, Microsoft — Tonylog 29 April 2008 @ 09:24

NDISwrapper LogoChe cosa è NDISwrapper? essendo a conoscenza del fatto che molti produttori di periferiche non rendono publiche le specifiche tecniche di alcuni dei loro prodotti, gli sviluppatori Linux trovano molto difficile per non dire impossibile lo sviluppo di driver. Comunque tutti i Linuxiani trovano sempre una soluzione, qui NDISwrapper diventa utile. Il progetto NDISwrapper usa delle API e NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) native di Windows al fine di far funzionare periferiche windows su linux. NDISwrapper e stato creato nativamente per l’uso con wireless cards non supportate da linux ed ubuntu in particolare, comunque come scoprirete le wi-fi card non sono le sole perifieriche che fa “girare” su linux.

Installare NDISwrapper su Ubuntu è molto semplice specialmente con il package manager Synaptic, bisogna, inizializzare il package manager, inserire la password di root e con l’icona cerca dobbiamo trovare il pacchetto ndiswrapper-common, segnarlo per l’installazione ed installarlo, il pacchetto dovrebbe risolvere la dipendenza con ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 (cioè dovrebbe installarlo in automatico), se non è stato installato di nuovo cerca e questa volta ndiswrapper-utils-1.9, marca ed installa.

Fatto!

Cosa bisogna fare adesso è installare i driver windows sulla nostra linux box e divertirci ed usare periferiche windows su Linux Ubuntu.

Se trovate difficile l’installazione delle vostre periferiche windows su linux potete seguire questa guida su come installare driver CAB o EXE su linux in inglese.

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How to use Taskel on Ubuntu

Labels: Linux Operating System en — Tonylog 23 December 2007 @ 20:57

Taskel on Ubuntu

The intallation and configuration of a certain type of packets on Unix Based systems can be a painfully long process. However, free software such as debian distro’s offer a great number of tools to simplify and cut down time wasted on boring tasks, one of the most common tools is Taskel.

Ubuntu being derived from Debian, in it’s repositories has one great tool, Taskel. Taskel is a gui based software that allows ubuntu linux users to install webserver configured and running packets on our distro. On the new Feisty and Gutsy the Taskel packets are installed as default, however to have them on any other distro is nesessary to simply run the command:

sudo apt-get install taskel

For the curios to see the packets for each of the Taskel options you can run the command:

sudo tasksel –list-tasks

Or to have a complete documentation of the software:

man taskel

Enjoy, Tonylog

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How to install NDISwrapper on ubuntu

Labels: Linux Operating System en, Linux Operating System it, Microsoft — Tonylog 24 November 2007 @ 14:49

NDISwrapper LogoWhat id NDISwrapper? Knowing that many vendors don’t release the technical specifications of some of their products, the Linux community finds very difficult to not say impossible the development of drivers. However, there is always a way to go around problems, there NDISwrapper becomes handy. The NDISwrapper project uses Windows kernel API and NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) to make our not supported peripherals run on Linux. NDISwrapper is natively made to be used with wireless cards not supported on our Linux Box but surprisingly enough will run far more than that.

How to install NDISwrapper on ubuntu: very easy using the Synaptic Package Manager, start the package manager, root password and make a search for ndiswrapper-common, mark for installation and install,(it should install as a dependency ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 if it doesn’t make a search and install that too).

Done.

What we need to do now is install our Windows drivers in our ubuntu Linux and enjoy the use of windows peripherals on Linux.

If you find difficult or not understand how to install windows drivers with NDISwrapper this is a fairly explicative article on how to install them.

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