TP-LINK TL-WN722N network interface card

TP-LINK TL-WN722N network interface card
Getting to work under Slackware 13.37

1. Downloaded this driver
http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-2.6-stable/v2.6.38/compat-wireless-2.6.38.2-2.tar.bz2

installed it as explained in:
http://www.q-station.net/kb/index.php/2012/05/04/tl-wn722n-usb-wireless-stick-in-linux/

2. downloaded the firmware file ar9271 from here
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git;a=blob_plain;f=ar9271.fw;hb=HEAD

3. copy the firmware to /lib/firmware/

4. restart linux.
now you should see the new interface on ifconfig

Slackware restart network

in slackware linux in order to
start/stop/restart network interfaces

sudo /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 [start/stop/restart]

resolve local network names on ubuntu

resolve local network names on ubuntu

1) edit nsswitch.conf file
in /etc/nsswitch.conf:

change :

hosts: files dns
to:
hosts: files wins dns


2) install winbind package
sudo apt-get install winbind


now you can ping other computers on your local net by their names instead by their ip addresses




taken from here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=88206