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How To Fix The UID Issue

Posted 05-11-2017 at 11:22 PM by Ztcoracat

There's nothing more irritating than not being able to mount your other drives while your booted into your favorite distro.

This has happened twice on my Linux systems and thanks to our Guru suicidaleggroll there is a way to fix it.

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I'll use my 3 systems as an example.

I've got Slackware, Voyager Linux and Gecko Linux...

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Use The dd Command to Make a Flash Drive Bootable

Posted 03-14-2017 at 05:54 PM by Ztcoracat

Sometimes Unetbootin doesn't work and leaves things on the drive behind.

Using the dd command is very useful and only takes a few minutes.

First execute; as root, fdisk -l to find out what drive the flash drive is.
I'll use /dev/sdg as an example.

To reformat run as root:

Code:

mkfs.vfat /dev/sdg -I

Unmount the drive:

Code:

umount /dev/sdg

Than to write the .iso to the flash drive run:

Code:

dd bs=4M

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How To Get The Driver For The RTL8192ce PCI Card to Play Nice With Debian Testing

Posted 03-14-2017 at 03:44 PM by Ztcoracat

I've had an intermittent connection going on with Sparky Linux which is based on Debian Testing.

If you have the:

Code:

02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192CE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

as your nic than it (the driver) can be made more reliable by disabling power management via module option ips and fwlps.

Create a new file with nano or your fav text editor.
/etc/modprobe.d/rtl8192ce.conf
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How To Recover A Lost Root Password

Posted 02-09-2017 at 05:26 PM by Ztcoracat

This works for Red Hat so I'm not sure if it works for other distributions.

In order to recover the lost root password hit the 'e' key as Grub is booting up.

Look for the kernel line and add rd.break to the end of the kernel line and hit Enter.

Than mnt -o remount, rw /sysroot

Than type passwd and enter a new password and do that twice.

After that you will need to make a .auto relable file because SELinux labeling is wrong...

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How To Get Sony Vaio Backlight Working Under Linux

Posted 07-14-2016 at 10:09 PM by Ztcoracat

Got a Sony Vaio with backlight capabilities?

If you answered yes to that question and it's not working I found a workaround.

Open the terminal as root and create this file in Nano or any other text editor.

Code:

/etc/modeprobe.d/sony-laptop.conf

Before you close that file put this argument in it:

Code:

options sony laptop kbd_backlight=2

Than save the file.

(2 is 60 seconds and 3 is unlimited) I recommend setting...

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