I pulled an old IBM Thinkpad T42 to use as a “light” and “mobile” laptop on the daily train ride to Helsinki. It’s not new but more than usable with 768Mb RAM and CentOS 5 installed. This gives me a full development environment to work with on the train. What I noticed was the problem to get the wireless network up on this thing.
Posts Tagged ‘Redhat’
Getting wireless network working on CentOS 5 and Thinkpad T42
Posted: 15th December 2008 by Mats Hellman in LinuxTags: CentOS, Linux, Redhat
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Installing Microsoft Corefonts on CentOS 5
Posted: 12th December 2008 by Mats Hellman in LinuxTags: CentOS, Linux, Redhat
This is a thing I always have to google when I need to install Microsoft’s fonts in my CentOS installs so I thought I’d post a short dirty note here to remind me how to do it.
First of all we need some tools to build ourselves the RPM for msttcorefonts, so fire up your terminal and
From installation to Active Directory client with CentOS 4.2 – Part two
Posted: 22nd August 2006 by Mats Hellman in LinuxTags: Active Directory, CentOS, Linux, Redhat
This is the second part of an article I started a _long_ time ago explaining how to connect a Linux desktop to Microsofts Active Directory, this time with the CentOS distribution. The first part can be found here. Hopefully you now have CentOS setup and are getting eager to get the domain logins working. We [...]
Software Installation by Group Policy
Posted: 13th December 2005 by Mats Hellman in LinuxTags: Active Directory, CentOS, Linux, Redhat
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For a large software deployment, most IT departments do not have the staff or time to install the software on each machine individually. In this article, I will show you how you can configure a Group Policy to install the software on each machine automatically from a central point. What is Group Policy? Creating a [...]
