linux newbie - some issues
albi at scii.nl
albi at scii.nl
Thu Aug 25 12:54:15 UTC 2005
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:39:31 +0200
Praveen Kumar <kattapraveen.kr at gmail.com> wrote:
> prob 1: during the installation both the network cards ie ethernet and
> wireless were identified correctly and installed but as i see the
> system now, the airport card, though displayed in the device mgr
> correctly is not listed in the network devices and neither can i use
> it in any other way.
what happens if you try this :
sudo modprobe airport
sudo ifconfig eth1
(a friend of mine had to manually modprobe airport after install)
> prob 2: this is probably a more imp problem. i have a internet
> connection through LAN. i have a default gateway as 10.120.76.121 and
> a internet proxy server as 10.120.78.2. though i am able to browse the
> network as such i am unable to connect to the internet. i have tried
> setting the default gateway as both the gateway and the proxy but no
> joy. and i have already set the proxy in the network proxy
> configuration.
did you set up the proxy in firefox ?
about apt-get, see here :
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/177
the section "Downloading Debian Packages through a Proxy"
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