On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 05:56:25PM -0500, Mark wrote: > I'm still mostly a newbie on Linux (intermediate Mac & Win user). I'm > having a strange problem on my Linux box, which is a Dell e1505 notebook. > > I installed Lenny the other day. My home router's wifi is set up with > WPA personal and mac address filtering (and I didn't know to plan ahead > for this), so Lenny's installation routine did not set up the wifi. > However, regular wired ethernet worked. I then installed VirtualBox > (latest version) with a WinXP Pro guest (for my wife). Wired Internet > piped through VBox into WinXP just fine. > > Then I started doing rookie things. I browsed the Internet looking for > ways to get the wifi working. I apt-get installed a few things; got the > program Wifi-Wiz, and configured it to use NDISwrapper without really > knowing what I was doing. Beyond this account, I can't really recall > what I did to the system. Here's what resulted from my efforts: the > Lenny installation continued to have working wired Internet. I > successfully got (using auto-DHCP) a good IP address from the wireless > router, though the address periodically switched between 192.168.1.24 > and 192.168.1.39 for no reason that I could tell. My Gnome desktop was > not getting wireless Internet: that is, Iceweasel couldn't open any URLs > unless the ethernet cable was plugged in. However, when I started up > WinXP in VirtualBox, WinXP *did* get wireless Internet. > > In trying to fix this (again, blindly) -- i.e. get wireless to work on > Gnome as well as on VirtualBox's WinXP machine -- I somehow wrecked the > network entirely. Now when I boot up no Internet of any kind works, > wired, wireless, Gnome, VBox-WinXP. > > Is there a newbie-friendly manual somewhere that I can use to configure > the networking from scratch? Any thoughts about what might be going > wrong? > Run 'lspci' and let us know what wireless card you have. If you've got a laptop, I bet it's a broadcom something-or-other and you need b43-fwcutter from the contrib or non-free repo (can't remember which).
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