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?
- Mark
- Ethernet & Wifi Weirdness Mark
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