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Emachine T2862 Realtek LAN Driver Does not Work

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I had a emachine T2862 in the shop today which needed a XP reinstall. The owner didn’t have the disks so I had to use a generic disc to install XP. This means that I have to go out on the net and find all the drivers for the box. This is generally fairly painless since most major PC manufacturers have fairly good driver download sites. This is not always the case though. In this situation I went to the Emachine website and grabbed the drivers for the correct model and all of them worked except for one. The LAN driver didn’t install and gave a error saying the device did not exist.

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Install ionCube Loader Using The Atomic Yum Repository On CentOS Linux

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The other day I needed to install ionCube Loader for encrypted PHP code to run on a CentOS Linux server but was initially unable to find a repository that included the php-ioncube-loader RPM package. After a couple minutes I remembered that I had previously used the Atomic repo to install PHP Zend Optimizer and so I thought I would check that repository to see if an ioncube RPM package was available as well. Below I display the search for a repository that includes an ionCube Loader RPM package along with installing the package on a CentOS Linux server.

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Dell OMSA Repo Install Error On CentOS: Command line error: no such option: –disableplugin

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I wrote another article recently about an issue when attempting to install the srvadmin-all RPM package provided by the Dell OMSA repository. It is likely that when you are installing the OMSA repository that you will receive an error on CentOS and possibly on other versions of Linux. The yum OMSA repository is installed via a file available from Dell called bootstrap.cgi. Below I describe the issue when installing the OMSA repository and provide a couple methods to resolve the problem.

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Verify PHP Compiled With curl And libcurl Support On A CentOS Linux Server

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Every now and then you will probably install an application that has a certain amount of prerequisites that you should verify on your server before beginning installation. Today I needed to verify that PHP was compiled with curl and/or libcurl support to install an application on a CentOS Linux server. I also needed to verify that PHP safe_mode was set to off and PHP register_globals was also set to off. The easiest way to verify PHP settings is to create a temporary PHP file that calls the phpinfo function and displays the results on a web page. Use the information below to verify that PHP is compiled with curl support on CentOS Linux or any other Linux server.

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CentOS Linux: PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function imagetypes()

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After moving a WordPress site from one server to a brand new server I ran into an issue with one of the WordPress plugins called MM-Forms. The MM-Forms WordPress plugin allows you to easily create contact forms that will either email filled out forms to you, store those forms in the MySQL database, or both email you and store the results in the database. The issue was the fact that the contact form was not displaying on the page it was configured to display on. After digging around a bit I located the issue by looking in the Apache logs. The issue ended up being with the PHP function called imagetypes. Below I describe the actual error noticed in the Apache logs, the CentOS RPM package that will provide the PHP function that was missing, and the yum logs from installing the package.