Sunday, January 25, 2009

Resolving the conflict of openafs and madwifi on ubuntu 8.11

Problem:
Given a working wireless setting on your laptop, after installing openafs according the procedure described in UIUC wiki, the wirelss is done.

Solution:

> sudo depmod -ae
And reinstall madwifi:
~madwifiDir> make
~madwifiDir> sudo make install
~madwifiDir> sudo modprobe ath_pci

Friday, January 23, 2009

How to find files in Linux using 'find'?

$fine /home/gaipaul -name 'index*'
- To find files having index as the beginning of the filename. The search would be started in the directory /home/gaipaul and carried on within that directory and its subdirectories.

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Using SSH to login remotely to Fitzpatrick Cluster

ssh -c arcfour,blowfish-cbc -Y -C opteronA.hpcc.nd.edu -l jgai

More Info:

http://www.nd.edu/~engcomp/doc/ssh_win_notes.html