Well, it seems i'm the nth new user who just can't wait to get his wireless back. After a peaceful year running Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell netbook I happily and repeatedly messed it up. Had some trouble installing Salix ( lilo trouble and noobness trouble) but it seems I end up with a shiny, faultless OS. I went for the basic install on the smallish SSD drive and I plan to add stuff piece by piece. The only thing bothering me is I'm unable to get a connection, either via wireless card or ethernet cable. It might be i'm just not seeing a menu or switch somewhere.Been through FAQ, part of the documentation and some threads.Some things i came up with:
I'm using DHCP, ifconfig -a results in
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:70:c0:b3:20
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 METRIC:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:27 Base address:0xa000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:576 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RXbytes:46832 (45.7 KiB) TX bytes:46832 (45.7 KiB)
the module involved seems to be named r8169.
lspci outcome
03:00.0 Network controller:Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co.,Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E
PCI Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
lsmod outcome
Module Size Used by
i915 150856 1
drm 136288 2 i915
snd_seq_dummy 2464 0
snd_seq_oss 28576 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5724 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 43984 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 6056 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 37504 0
snd_mixer_oss 14172 1 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 234388 14
cpufreq_ondemand 6148 1
speedstep_lib 3744 0
acpi_cpufreq 5676 0
freq_table 3296 2 cpufreq_ondemand,acpi_cpufreq
ppdev 7168 0
lp 9380 0
parport_pc 23940 0
parport 29768 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
fuse 52472 1
joydev 9184 0
dell_laptop 3420 0
rfkill 9168 1 dell_laptop
dcdbas 6748 1 dell_laptop
psmouse 41644 0
serio_raw 4896 0
evdev 8960 11
i2c_i801 8784 0
uvcvideo 57928 0
videodev 38496 1 uvcvideo
v4l1_compat 13184 2 uvcvideo,videodev
btusb 11536 0
bluetooth 48644 1 btusb
snd_hda_codec_realtek 188608 1
r8169 31456 0
mii 4380 1 r8169
snd_hda_intel 22952 0
snd_hda_codec 53820 2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
jmb38x_ms 8480 0
snd_hwdep 6720 1 snd_hda_codec
sdhci_pci 6844 0
memstick 8272 1 jmb38x_ms
sdhci 15008 1 sdhci_pci
mmc_core 44944 1 sdhci
led_class 3392 1 sdhci
snd_pcm 64996 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer 17920 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 49764 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 5472 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7972 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
intel_agp 25564 1
agpgart 28716 3 drm,intel_agp
battery 9824 0
rtc_cmos 9548 0
rtc_core 15252 1 rtc_cmos
rtc_lib 2332 1 rtc_core
video 16460 0
output 2396 1 video
ac 3840 0
thermal 15064 0
processor 33964 3 acpi_cpufreq,thermal
button 5676 0
thermal_sys 10748 3 video,thermal,processor
hwmon 1936 1 thermal_sys
I understand I should have domain name and address in /etc/resolv.conf, while it contains the text "search example.net".
Am I just missing something I should have installed?
Sorry to bother, I like this OS so much and can't wait to get to know it better. Sorry for the lame use of English, too.
