linux newbie - some issues

Praveen Kumar kattapraveen.kr at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 20:48:47 UTC 2005


Hi,

> > 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)
> 
nothing happened... when i did the "sudo modprobe airport" no result and 
thereafter when i did "sudo ifconfig eth1" it gave an error saying it did 
not recognise the airport card. however when i listed the pci cards using 
lspci... i got the following result:
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 AGP
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 [Mobility 
Radeon 9600 M10]
0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 PCI
0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
0001:10:13.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus 
Controller
0001:10:17.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid Mac I/O
0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
0001:10:1a.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
0001:10:1b.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0001:10:1b.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
0001:10:1b.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)
0002:24:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 Internal PCI
0002:24:0d.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth/Intrepid ATA/100
0002:24:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 FireWire 
(rev 81)
0002:24:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 2 GMAC (Sun 
GEM) (rev 80)


> > 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<http://10.120.76.121>and
> > a internet proxy server as 10.120.78.2 <http://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"
thanks for the input... both my problems were solved and now i am able to 
access the net as well as use apt-get for updates/upgrades 

thank you once again,
praveen
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