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pinball wizard
Honorary Master
You calling the OP a racist? Be careful with your choice of words
Nah. For me, full sparrow means losing your ****.
You calling the OP a racist? Be careful with your choice of words
Post of the year
I think this was addressed in previous posts, I want to eventually gain the skills to become a Linux sysadmin
Well bad start although I learned a bit,
Installed Linux adamant I would not go back to windows, no sound or internet connectivity.... have a tp link dongle, madly try find drivers on my cellphone no luck, need to find out driver name, need to get back into windows to find driver version - pc boots straight into Linux, spend 2 hours trying to figure out how to update grub so the boot menu will be displayed, eventually get it right.
Get driver name, download driver, back to Linux, see that I need to compile the install, try to install gcc, already installed, try to complile driver for TP link, errors everywhere... I apparently need a build directory or something like that.
Go to sleep at 23:30,
Note I am challenging myself not to use the gui at all. The going is very slow.
Installed Linux adamant I would not go back to windows, no sound or internet connectivity.... have a tp link dongle, madly try find drivers on my cellphone no luck, need to find out driver name, need to get back into windows to find driver version - pc boots straight into Linux, spend 2 hours trying to figure out how to update grub so the boot menu will be displayed, eventually get it right.
Get driver name, download driver, back to Linux, see that I need to compile the install, try to install gcc, already installed, try to complile driver for TP link, errors everywhere... I apparently need a build directory or something like that.
Go to sleep at 23:30,
Note I am challenging myself not to use the gui at all. The going is very slow.
ubunto 15.10
Which specific TP-Link dongle is it specifically?
If it is the "TL-WN727N" dongle, then this might help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1566639
If it is the "TL-WN727N" dongle, then this might help: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1566639
Ok, found this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/499091/trying-to-install-tp-link-archer-t2u-on-ubuntu
There is also an official driver from TP-Link: http://www.tp-link.com/en/download/Archer-T2U_V1.html#Driver
People report good results from the steps above.
Code:
mkdir ~/src
cd ~/src
git clone https://github.com/Myria-de/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916.git
cd mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916
make clean
make
sudo make installPeople report good results from the steps above.
MickZA
Executive Member
I'm guessing a laptop install?
... if so let us have the make & model.
... if so let us have the make & model.
"mkdir" and "cd" you should know (from DOS)
"git" is a command to get files from a git repository. You can also download this manually by going to https://github.com/Myria-de/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916 and clicking on "Download ZIP".
"make clean" is just to remove any old compiled modules, so you start fresh.
"make" reads the Makefile, and compiles the source.
"sudo make install" reads the Makefile, and install the resulting binary in the specified location.
The git page shows these steps:
Code:
$ mkdir ~/src
$ cd ~/src
$ git clone https://github.com/Myria-de/mt7610u_wifi_sta_v3002_dpo_20130916.git
$ make
$ make install
$ cp RT2870STA.dat /etc/Wireless/RT2870STA/RT2870STA.dat
$ rebootEasy:
- Pick any LAMP software (vBulletin, Wordpress etc)
- Pick a flavour of Linux and install (don't be a wuss and disable firewall and selinux)
- Install LAMP stack
- Tune HTTP
- Harden Linux
- Make it run on PHP7
- Configure APC
- Have MySQL run on a separate volume (i.e. mount as "/data") - tons of fun here getting to know MySQL config
- Figure out how to run a hot-MySQL backup
- Install mod_evasive
- Install mod_security (and cry, because you have to write unblock rules)
- Install server monitoring
- Use JMeter to load-testing your config and tune HTTP (prefork vs worker vs event model) and MySQL (bonus points if you use memcache)
- Put a Varnish / Nginx in front of it
- Then duplicate the environment and loadbalance
Once you have done all of the above:
- Build a Graylog / Elastic search cluster
- Use Logstash to feed your LAMP logs into it
After this, move to Joburg and I will hire you
LOL
It does happen. Sometimes easy to fix, other times not.
Maybe paste the output here, if possible. Someone might be able to assist.
MagicDude4Eva
Banned
You are not a proper Linux guy if you have never installed Gentoo - it goes something like this: Hit Compile. Fix 1 Error. Hit Compile again - 4387 errors
I think you are ripping the mickey out of it, not a gentoo user but it's not complicated.
qdada
Expert Member
Easy:
- Pick any LAMP software (vBulletin, Wordpress etc)
- Pick a flavour of Linux and install (don't be a wuss and disable firewall and selinux)
- Install LAMP stack
- Tune HTTP
- Harden Linux
- Make it run on PHP7
- Configure APC
- Have MySQL run on a separate volume (i.e. mount as "/data") - tons of fun here getting to know MySQL config
- Figure out how to run a hot-MySQL backup
- Install mod_evasive
- Install mod_security (and cry, because you have to write unblock rules)
- Install server monitoring
- Use JMeter to load-testing your config and tune HTTP (prefork vs worker vs event model) and MySQL (bonus points if you use memcache)
- Put a Varnish / Nginx in front of it
- Then duplicate the environment and loadbalance
Once you have done all of the above:
- Build a Graylog / Elastic search cluster
- Use Logstash to feed your LAMP logs into it
After this, move to Joburg and I will hire you
What he said, but do it from source. Avoid installing anything that requires a package manager.