From 9931c0a1a45c8d52ff448506588fc47f55de74cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Expo on server Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 08:26:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] dhcp setting - online edit of handbook/computing/netconfig.html --- handbook/computing/netconfig.html | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/handbook/computing/netconfig.html b/handbook/computing/netconfig.html index 3d0452055..4ab66d622 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/netconfig.html +++ b/handbook/computing/netconfig.html @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ We bridge the hut wifi with the hut ethernet cable to the expo laptop

We have done this in two different ways:

  1. 2017-2019 : in the netbook. -
  2. 2022-2023 : in the router (Netgear or tp-link) box. +
  3. 2022-2024 : in the router (Netgear or tp-link) box.

1. The benefit of doing it in the router box is that you get to play with a graphical web interface not text files. But also you can test that the router is working separately from everything else.

2. The benefit of doing it in the netbook is that all the configuration is in the same place, and you only have to learn one way of doing things instead of having to use text files and a web interface. Also, by making the router completely dumb, it is swap-replaceable if it dies with no reconfiguration required. @@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ has been added to the end of the runfakenet script as this setting does not seem

Printer

We have a Samsung C430W printer with broken ethernet and wirless networking, but the USB cable works. -

From a clean Devian install on the expo laptop, the missing thing for making the printer work was: apt-get install libcupsimage2 +

From a clean Debian install on the expo laptop, the missing thing for making the printer work was: apt-get install libcupsimage2 Also you need the Samsung driver installation from the Samsung website (see below).

To share the printer:
@@ -228,6 +228,8 @@ which will run the script to reconnect. This may take a minute to have the desir

If it keeps failing, then maybe the cron system which re-triggers it every 60s is not working. That is probably a symptom of something more much more serious wrong with the netbook if you have already re-booted it. Try re-booting it again and this time be more patient. Report this to a nerd, write a record of the problem in the expo logbook and post a request for help to the expo Matrix chat system.

wicd

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In 2024 this may be entirely different...

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The netbook needs to have its persistent networking set up correctly in addition to the other scripts. This is the wicd gui program that has an icon in the top-right of the sceen in the system panel. (Or search in all applications in the Internet section for the wicd application). Set the checkboxes so