In my quest to convert windows users to linux, I installed Linux Mint Isadora ( based on Ubuntu Lucid ) on my wife’s MSI Wind U130 netbook.
Everything except WiFi worked out of the box, the chipset was detected, but it was disabled. Launchpad had a known bug filed for this and the following steps below “activated” the disabled wireless chipset.
mkdir -p /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/
touch /etc/Wireless/RT2860STA/RT2860STA.dat
service network-manager restart
Works extraordinary and even the updates don’t seem to break them.
Dnsmasq has the ability to direct DNS queries for certain domains to specific upstream nameservers. This feature was added for use with VPNs but it is fully general. The scenario is this: you have a standard internet connection via an ISP, and dnsmasq is configured to forward queries to the ISP’s nameservers, then you make a VPN connection into your companies network, giving access to hosts inside the company firewall. You have access, but since many of the internal hosts aren’t visible on the public internet, your company doesn’t publish them to the public DNS and you can’t get their IP address from the ISP nameservers. The solution is to use the companies nameserver for private domains within the company, and dnsmasq allows this. Assuming that internal company machines are all in the domain internal.myco.com and the companies nameserver is at 192.168.10.1 then the option server=/internal.myco.com/192.168.10.1 will direct all queries in the internal domain to the correct nameserver. You can specify more than one domain in each server option. If there is more than one nameserver just include as many server options as is needed to specify them all.
