Home Server Tips and Tricks -

James Land - 22 Mar 2021

My Current Setup

Since I recently upgraded the CPU in my personal desktop I found myself with almost enough parts to build out a small personal homeserver, just needed to get a Power Supply and a Case.

Going to use this page to relay how I fixed some of the hardships I found during my initial setup.

Software:

Current Operating System: Fedora Server 33 Cloud Softwrae: Code Ready Workspaces

Hardware:

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz Memory: –8Gi– 16Gi (Script did ) Hard Dreive: 1.8TB HHD

Setting Up WiFI

In order to get my wifi boradband chip working, here are the steps I took.

1. Find Latest Stable Release from RPM Fusion Nonfree rpm : http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/

2. Install rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable rpm:

rpm -Uvh rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable*rpm

1. Install Kmod-wl driver

   sudo dnf install kmod-wl
   

2. Install wpa_supplicant

dnf install wpa_supplicant

1. Reboot

2. At this point nmcli sould show our wifi connection as disconnected

3. Manual connection initially:

   • Turn on wifi radio nmcli r wifi on

   • Find avalible networks nmcli d wifi list

   • Connect to network nmcli device wifi <SSID> password <PASSWORD>

   • Test with a basic curl google.com or whatever

4. Automagic connection on boot:

   • Add the following file to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<DEVICE_NAME>

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlp4s0

TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=<DEVICE_NAME>
ONBOOT=yes
ESSID='<SSID>'

* Create a key-<DEVICE_NAME> in the same folder

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/key-wlp4s0

KEY=password

Tags:

homeserver linux