[Cialug] DSL(?) question.....

[Theron Conrey]

Looking for a good next step:

I'm helping a friend get a computer together for his daughter.  She's been using Ubuntu on his desktop, and he's ready to give her her own box.  So, out we went, got a system built, and loaded the OS.  I ran into some issues with the atheros wifi driver and ndiswrapper (1.47 works the installed version with Ubuntu 1.45 causes an issue where the card reports an incorrect pciid to the OS, don't ask, 1.47 resolved the issue and that's all the further down that rabbit hole I ventured) and she's excited to take this shiny workstation to school.  Only one snag.... It doesn't get out to websites.  I say the websites because synaptic works fine...  IRC works fine... Only the browser can't get out on the net.  This is a quest with msn account, and I'm not sure how everything with that type connection is structured.  I guess what I'm looking for is what to check next.

I can use ndiswrapper to get the card working and recognized by the OS.
I can get associated with the wireless using WEP.
I can ping the router.
I can resolve web addresses.
I can apt-get to my heart's content.
I can connect to freenode and rant about this odd situation.
I just can't seem to get ANY browser to get out to the internet. (firefox, epiphany, w3m)



Much obliged for comments.
-Theron



-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of Theron Conrey
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2007 8:45 AM
To: 'Central Iowa Linux Users Group'
Subject: [Cialug] Xen Hosting here in Des Moines


Background:

I talked a little about a project I was working on at the last LUG meeting to get some services of mine moved out of my house and into a "real" datacenter.  My thought was to lock down my home network and have a server at a CoLo facility or in a datacenter to host my mail and apache services, and associated services I use on the road.  This quickly changed as I realized the cost of putting a server in a data rack somewhere.  So in order to facilitate my own desire to get this stuff moved over, and not wanting to pay a service 30-50 bucks a month to get my own VM somewhere, I decided to start my own Community Xen hosting project.

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Update:

Server is built, hosting is arranged, and the only thing left is get some folks onboard, and get this thing racked.
Take a peek over to xenkibbutzdotcom, and see what we're doing.
The cost is going to be 25 dollars a month.  If you know someone outside the LUG that is interested, tell them it's 30, or have them email me.

There are only five slots remaining, so if you're interested, let me know soon.
Possible uses?

        Mail Server
        Web Servers
        Offsite Backups
        EyeOS (remote desktop)
        iFolder
        general tinkering


-Theron

If you're interested please contact me at theron at xenkibbutz.com for this project.

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