A quick post on how to set Hyperterminal or any other Console Software
so you can console into a MikroTik routerboard router.
Port Settings
Bits per second: 115200
Data bits: 8
Parity: None
Stop bits: 1
Flow control: None
Console into mikrotik RouterOS from Windows - HyperTerminal Settings
VMware windows 7 missing ethernet adapter
Have you ever had problems seeing the drivers of a virtual piece of hardware like a network adapter under VMware?
Recently I came across this when I had to help a friend to fix networking on a windows 7 virtual machine on VMware Workstation. His virtual machine would could not find drivers for the Ethernet adapter and he kept on installing and uninstalling the vmware tools in hopes of fixing it.
I had to help him. Well with a little help from my friends I found out about the infamous
So I did put virtualDevs for both of the ethernet adapters in his virtual machine's vmx file like:
For no particular reason I put it just before everything ethernet* related in the vmx file. Guess what! It did not fix it! I kept on rebooting his virtual machine ... tried safe mode , windows repair , you name it.
However, Coffee-persistence always prevails. There is another entry in the vmx file named guestOS. Well this was set to "other" like:
I changed guestOS to:
VM ->
settings ->
Guest Operating System ->
Microsoft Windows ->
Version: Windows 7
Yes! that did it! The Ethereal Adapter has drivers and Networking works!
So if you are missing the Ethernet Adapter driver in your Windows 7 machine:
VMware windows 7 missing adapter --linux
Recently I came across this when I had to help a friend to fix networking on a windows 7 virtual machine on VMware Workstation. His virtual machine would could not find drivers for the Ethernet adapter and he kept on installing and uninstalling the vmware tools in hopes of fixing it.
I had to help him. Well with a little help from my friends I found out about the infamous
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000"missing from the virtual machine's .vmx
So I did put virtualDevs for both of the ethernet adapters in his virtual machine's vmx file like:
ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" ethernet1.virtualDev = "e1000"
For no particular reason I put it just before everything ethernet* related in the vmx file. Guess what! It did not fix it! I kept on rebooting his virtual machine ... tried safe mode , windows repair , you name it.
However, Coffee-persistence always prevails. There is another entry in the vmx file named guestOS. Well this was set to "other" like:
guestOS = "other"
I changed guestOS to:
guestOS = "windows7"and then I did set:
VM ->
settings ->
Guest Operating System ->
Microsoft Windows ->
Version: Windows 7
Yes! that did it! The Ethereal Adapter has drivers and Networking works!
So if you are missing the Ethernet Adapter driver in your Windows 7 machine:
- turn your VM off
- locate your VM's *.vmx file
- add the line ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000" to your VM 's vmx file
- make sure that guestOS = "windows7" in your VM's vmx file
- turn on your virtual machine normally and don't let windows to attempt to fix anything themselves
VMware windows 7 missing adapter --linux
make etc-network-interfaces and resolv.conf stick on ubuntu 12.04 desktop
There are plenty of good reasons for GUI Network Managers and complicated local DNS `cache` settings on Popular Linux Desktop Systems like Ubuntu 12.04.
There are plenty of good reasons for a technical person to get pissed on all these and start cursing while trying to figure out how to stop the Network Manager network-manager overwriting /etc/network/interfaces and stop resolvconf overwriting /etc/resolv.conf.
Why do I want to make /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf stick? Well, if you don't get it there is no reason explaining it.
To disable network-manager -- Make /etc/network/interfaces stick.
To disable resolvconf -- Make /etc/resolv.conf stick --
I ended up not disabling it ( just in case )
In Ubuntu 12.04 /etc/resolv.conf is just a symlink so it would be easy to change it /etc/resolv.conf to a regular file or change /sbin/resolvconf
but ...
If you disable network-manager you could just use /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base as your /etc/resolv.conf and leave resolvconf alone.
Make /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf stick on ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop
There are plenty of good reasons for a technical person to get pissed on all these and start cursing while trying to figure out how to stop the Network Manager network-manager overwriting /etc/network/interfaces and stop resolvconf overwriting /etc/resolv.conf.
Why do I want to make /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf stick? Well, if you don't get it there is no reason explaining it.
To disable network-manager -- Make /etc/network/interfaces stick.
$sudo -s #stop network-manager #echo "manual" > /etc/init/network-manager.override
To disable resolvconf -- Make /etc/resolv.conf stick --
I ended up not disabling it ( just in case )
In Ubuntu 12.04 /etc/resolv.conf is just a symlink so it would be easy to change it /etc/resolv.conf to a regular file or change /sbin/resolvconf
but ...
If you disable network-manager you could just use /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base as your /etc/resolv.conf and leave resolvconf alone.
# cat /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/base nameserver 10.1.2.12 nameserver 10.1.2.13
Make /etc/network/interfaces and /etc/resolv.conf stick on ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop
BCM4311 Network controller on debian like systems
This is a quick post of how to get the Broadcom BCM4311 wireless card working on
debian based systems ( ubuntu , *ubuntu , etc ).
BCM4311 is a descent wireless adapter used in many laptop computers. The thing is that many times it just does not work right after an installation and I am tired of trying to figure it out ( searching for that one debian packet I need to apt-get install ) every time, hence this post.
First of all this is the adapter I am talking about:
You should see at least that much with an lshw:
To fix it for good do:
Once your computer comes up you should be able to use your wireless interface.
Note: the one above is not my Mom's neither Nick's MAC. It is made up.
I am sorry if it's yours.
BCM4311 Network controller on debian like systems
BCM4311 is a descent wireless adapter used in many laptop computers. The thing is that many times it just does not work right after an installation and I am tired of trying to figure it out ( searching for that one debian packet I need to apt-get install ) every time, hence this post.
First of all this is the adapter I am talking about:
# lspci | tail -1 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
You should see at least that much with an lshw:
# lshw -C network *-network description: Network controller product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN vendor: Broadcom Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0 version: 01 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
To fix it for good do:
$ sudo -s # apt-get update # apt-get install firmware-b43-installer # apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source # shutdown -r now
Once your computer comes up you should be able to use your wireless interface.
# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth1 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off
# ifconfig wlan0 wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7d:61:8e:ab UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Note: the one above is not my Mom's neither Nick's MAC. It is made up.
I am sorry if it's yours.
BCM4311 Network controller on debian like systems
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