[Bio-linux-list] FW: Biolinux / Firefox web browser

[Tony Travis]

On 09/04/18 13:59, Timms-Wilson, Tracey wrote:
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> *From:* Breen Patrick (RTH) OUH [mailto:Patrick.Breen at ouh.nhs.uk]
> *Sent:* 09 April 2018 13:34
> *To:* Timms-Wilson, Tracey <tmt at ceh.ac.uk>
> *Subject:* Biolinux / Firefox web browser
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> Dear Tracey
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> Following my phone call from a few minutes ago, I would be grateful for
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> I have been using Biolinux 8, which is downloaded on my MAC laptop, over
> the weekend and today for a bioinformatics course I am doing. However, I
> have been unable to access the internet, via the FireFox web browser on
> Biolinux 8, yesterday and today. I am using the wifi service at Oxford
> University Hospitals, and wonder if this could be the issue. I have no
> trouble accessing the interne, when I switch over to the MAC operating
> system. This is stressing me as I cannot email answers for my project to
> the course director. Can you help?

Hi, Patrick.
Tracey forwarded your email to me and I've CC'ed my reply to the
Bio-Linux mailing list in case anyone else is having similar problems.

When you say "Bio-Linux 8, which is downloaded to my MAC", do you mean
you've actually installed it onto the Mac hard disk or just that you are
running Bio-Linux from a downloaded .iso file written to a USB stick?

If you are running Bio-Linux fromn a USB-stick, did you download the
latest version 8.0.8, which has a newer Linux kernel and WiFi drivers?

> https://www.bioinformatics.org/groups/?group_id=341

If you've installed Bio-Linux to your Mac hard disk, you will have to
check for updated drivers for the WiFi chipset used in your Mac because
we are not allowed to distribute the proprietary drivers needed by some
WiFi chipsets. These must be downloaded and installed separately.

If you're running Bio-Linux on your Mac as a guest OS under VirtualBox,
it should be using the 'native' Mac OS drivers on the host OS.

A quick solution to your immediate problem would be to plug your Mac
into a wired Ethernet connection, which will work without any problems.
You would, in any case, need to do that if you install Bio-Linux to the
hard disk and want to update the drivers.

If you are running Bio-Linux from a USB-stick, you can save your work to
the FAT partition of the Bio-Linux USB-stick if it is only a few small
files, or write it to a larger USB-stick or USB-disk in another port on
your laptop and email it after rebooting into mac OS.

Let us know how you get an and ask your course organiser to post a
message to the Bio-Linux mailing list or contact me off-list if you need
more help.

Bye,

  Tony.

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