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1. Colanth | Nov 17, 2010 | Reply

   1) Depending on the particular card, you might have to run ndiswrapper and use the Windows driver. Linux support for wifi cards isn’t anywhere near complete yet.

   2) You set up the web server (Apache) and you set up the ftp server. The address is whatever your DNS records (on whatever DNS server your address is using) say they are – that has nothing to do with the Ubuntu box – the server doesn’t define the address, the DNS server does (for any canonical internet address – it’s all numbers to the computer). The http:// and ftp:// parts are commands to your web browser – they have nothing to do with the address.

2. General Cucombre | Nov 17, 2010 | Reply

   Yes, of course it comes with Ethernet drivers, and hardware support is generally good in Ubuntu. I wouldn’t expect any problems in that area.

   However, as far as Wi-Fi goes, that depends on your particular Wi-Fi adapter.

   The following article contains detailed instructions for setting up Wi-Fi on Ubuntu:
   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WiFiHowTo

   And here is the list of supported Wi-Fi adapters:
   https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessCardsSupported

   Didn’t quite get the part about ftp vs http. Both FTP and HTTP server are included with Ubuntu server, as well as SSH – you can configure them independently. The names http://ftp.myserver.com vs http://www.myserver.com are handled by your DNS server. If you want them both to come to that machine, just point both ftp. and www. to the same IP address.

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