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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 |