Terence Relph wrote:
> Hello everyone
> I`ve been reading the emails for months now and I have at last
> decided to ask a question. The thing is i have had dapper drake on my
> other pc for 6 months now and I still cant get onto the internet, I`ve
> got a netgear DG632 modem router and a netgear FA311v2 card I also
> bought a WG311t wireless pci adapter for this windows pc running xp.
> It seems I don't have a clue about setting it all up. I just keep
> going round in circles getting ever more frustrated. I have tried
> installing them all but there are so many addresses and numbers and
> nothing seems to happen the way it say`s in the graphical
> configuration tool in Debian Admin. I would grateful if someone could
> help me out here maybe there is a better tutorial somewhere. Also I`m
> not sure if I should be installing the network card or the router
> first. I have searched the ubuntu forums but I fear that the answers
> may be to involved as I have never used linux before. I hope this is
> not to basic for the hints lug members.
>
> thank you for your patience
>
> terry relph
Hi Terry,
Well, I am guessing the router works on account of this mail reaching
the list!
That being the case we can find out about the network settings either
from the admin console of the router, or by quizzing the XP box and
making some intelligent guesses.
Probably the easiest thing to do is to get the PCI card working first.
Your email implies that the wireless card is in the XP box and the PCI
card is in the Linux box. If that's not the case it might be worth
clearing it up.
Anyway, one step at a time. On your XP box run the command 'ipconfig' in
a Command Prompt [1]:
C:\Documents and Settings\sean>ipconfig
Windows IP Configuration
Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.11
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.1.1
>From the point of view of figuring out what is going on, it's probably
worth running a similar command from your Linux machine. Bring up a
terminal [2] and issue the ifconfig command:
sean@BENDER:~/games/doom3$ ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:8F:D6:45:B2
inet addr:192.168.1.40 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::213:8fff:fed6:45b2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:56376 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:77204 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:48010793 (45.7 MiB) TX bytes:58224362 (55.5 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0xe800
The important bits are the ip address or inet addr and the default
gateway, but it's probably best that you copy and paste the lot in. I
have snipped all my vmware stuff and the loopback device so you will
probably see more info here on your machine.
Once we have this information we can start offering up some advice. If
anything I have asked you to do doesn't make sense, please ask. On the
other hand, if I have pitched it a bit too low, please excuse me!
Sean
[1] Start >> Programs >> Accessories >> Command Prompt
[2] Accessories >> Terminal (from memory - I am not using Gnome)
