Windows 8.1 Upgrade on Acer Travelmate 6291

Precisely today, 13 years ago...

https://paparadit.blogspot.com/2007/06/installing-sata-hard-drive-with-windows.html

After 13 years using Windows XP until finally I wiped it out couple weeks ago with 64bit Windows 8.1. And here below the story...


But somehow I couldn't find the driver for the LAN & built-in Wifi. So, I'm using my TP-Link TL-WN725N USB Wifi Adapter to connect it to the internet.

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Internet Connection Sharing via Wifi

Having two or more personal laptop or PC on home nowadays is not an extraordinary thing. Especially for those who play in rough with IT sector or gadget freakier, I called it “a-must have”. Survey research result found on internet clarify that 91 percent of those who have a netbook also own a laptop and 87 percent own a desktop. Some husband also equip their house with two laptop for their wife, so that there’s no more problem for both of them to kill their each pleasure time – husband working on his spread sheet business and wife sharing minds with her facebook page. But, how about if husband need to send email his work immediately while his wife still browsing for her lingerie on the internet? No problem at all if they have both modem, but troubling wife for her modem might become a big problem. This article will assist you how to setting up internet connection over wireless signal built-in on common laptop or PC, it’s a cheap trick than buying a new modem and more practice than using a cross cable.

First of all, make sure that both wifi on each PC or laptop is currently exist and active. Set wifi IP address on host machine where the modem plugged in (I used my 12” Travelmate 6291 for this) with 192.168.0.1 and subnet mask with 255.255.255.0 just like picture below:



From Wireless Network tab on the same Wireless Network Properties window, click Add button to add wifi network identification name. From example, I named it with “TravelMate” and configured it with Open Network Authentication. Don’t forget to check “This is a computer to computer (ad hoc) network“ on bottom of the window.



To test whether it succeeded or not, let the machine search for current wifi signal. It will found at least with your existing network name you made already. On example, it will display “TravelMate” wifi connection.



Next, plugged in the modem and activate the internet connection link. Mine was particularly Huawei E160 dongle USB modem with Unlimited IM2 Broom ISP SIM card. After the link is up, click on Advanced tab from properties window, check for Internet Connection Sharing and make sure to share it over wireless network connection.



Done for the host connection, now get ready to switch to guest device. Set wifi IP address from guest device to 192.168.0.2 with same subnet mask but point to host IP address as both gateway and DNS address (192.168.0.1).



Now, let the guest search for existing signal. It will found host wifi network signal (example: “TravelMate”) and make it try to connect to host.



After it succeeded “paired”, try to pinging an internet host from command prompt or you can open a page from browser directly. That’s all, if there’s nothing left, both device will have internet connection from single modem plugged in on one of the computer.



PS: I dedicated this article to my buddy and blessed for his brand new 10” Lenovo Ideapad S10 with Veriface Recognition software that I finally cracked and working on my Aspire One.

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Configure Linux Wifi Manually (Part I)

Setting up wireless networking on Linux is not so easy than Windows. In this first part article, I’d like to share about how to setting up wifi manually in LAN environment ~ eg: at office ~, at least it’s worked for me on my Acer Travelmate 6291 running Fedora 7. As we know, most of wireless LAN is configured more protected by the network administrator as they will not share the connection to everybody like public hot spot access area. The LAN wireless access line oftenly locked by some string parameters such as private key.

First, let assumed that the wireless device has been setup correctly on your system (On my system, the wireless device using its native built-in driver from Fedora 7). Then, collect the wireless information completely from your local network administrator. These information including the wireless ESSID, the access point hexa-decimal address, the private key (password), the network topology wether the connection established in static or automatic (DHCP) & some others required parameters regarding to each administrator policy.

If both above pre-condition is sufficient, then you are ready to enter the next step configuration. To simplyfy the process, create a bash executable script & write down commands below to it. Note that the commands are depend on your existing environment. Below script is a simple example which working in my test environment (wlan0 is my wireless device file):

iwconfig wlan0 essid the_name_of_the_essid
iwconfig wlan0 ap 00:0a:79:75:eb:60
# which channel? (optional)
iwconfig wlan0 channel 11
# the rate? (optional)
iwconfig wlan0 rate 24M
# un-checked below if it managed
# iwconfig ath0 mode managed
# the rts? (optional)
iwconfig wlan0 rts 1792
# the frag? (optional)
iwconfig wlan0 frag 1792
# what is the passphrase key?
iwconfig wlan0 key open the_passphrase_key
# un-checked 2 below if it a static IP addressing
# ifconfig ath0 up
#ifconfig ath0 192.168.10.27/24 up
# checked below if it a DHCP IP addressing
dhclient wlan0
# un-checked below if the kwifimanager is exist to validate the existing configuration
# kwifimanager

Test to run the script to check that the configuration is valid or not, then ping to others system in LAN wether your logged in succesfully or not. If you are using laptop, make sure to switch-on the wifi button. That’s all, hope this article will benefit to you & please share me about your experience about this article.

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