Finally got this to work, following these instructions. One thing I had to do, and that I hadn’t seen elsewhere, was creating a file /etc/default/wpasupplicant and adding the line: ENABLED=0 A few problems remain I still have to start nm-applet manually: nm-applet & even after I log out and log back in again. After I [...]
I have an external harddrive (NAS), the Lacie Ethernet disk mini. Today, I finally figured out how to mount it so that I can rsync to it (thanks to some friendly help on comp.os.linux.misc). Some info first: The edmini is set up to get an IP address via DHCP. It is then connected to the [...]
Here’s a mini tutorial on how to do fast backups of important files to a remote server. This involves three steps: Getting ssh access to a remote machine, setting up keypair authentication, backing up data with rsync. Requirements: rsync and ssh server on the remote machine, rsync and ssh client on the local machine.
This is my first blog post. Let’s see whether it shows up.