I just installed on an old Compaq Armada M700 laptop, 1GB processor, 384MB RAM, 20GB HDD. Wireless connection with a PCI card. Can't seem to access the 'Net. Typing in https://www.google.com gets me an error message (Konqueror). When I try to install Firefox (or other browsers) with Add/Remove, Adept Installer crashes (signal 11 SIGSEGV). Is there some trick to getting online? I don't necessarily need Firefox, or any other specific browser, I just want to surf.
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Not to sound like a TOTAL newbie, but I really don't know... The disc that I installed from is labeled 8.04, and that, sadly, is the extent of my knowledge at this point, I know quite a bit about Windows and essentially nothing about Linux...
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Applications -> System: Terminal (Konsole)
Code:lspci | grep Network
And, if your bottom "panel" is grey/silver in the default install you are very likely running 3.5.x and if it is black you are (likely) running 4.x...
You can enter
Code:lsb_release -a
Code:kde-config --version | grep KDE
Code:kde4-config --version | grep KDE
dang hippies
aged hippy's method is better... actually, in kde3 you can just right-click the K Menu icon and get to the version if I recall correctly...
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If you start Konqueror on the K Menu button, select Help ->About KDE and it will tell you the desktop version at the top.
Another way is to press <Alt> + <F2> and type kcontrol into the box, and hit <Return>.... but not too hard.
Kcontrol will tell you on the first screen.
p.s.
Sorry, kjjjj.
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http://hardware4linux.info/component/18984/ via a quick google search looks promising... the rt2500 driver should be working for you without anything needed from you i think...
I'm afraid someone else will need to help you getting the rt2500 working properly though... does anything wireless related show up in Applications -> System: Hardware Drivers Manager ? (I dont necessarily think it should, since it should already be working out of the box, but it is something to check while you're waiting for better help than I can provide).
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The wireless connection doesn't seem to be the issue. The machine is telling me that I have a connection, but just in case I hooked up via USB cable to my DSL modem. This connection is CERTAINLY there, but still no results when trying to surf with Konqueror, and the same error message when I try to install Firefox or any of several other browsers listed in Add/Remove (Adept). I don't get it. How can I be connected yet unable to browse?
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So if you ping a site, say
Code:ping -c 5 [url]www.dlsreports.com[/url]
Oh, and you can also
Code:sudo apt-get install firefox
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couldn't ping, couldn't install firefox (bunch of error messages incl. "could not resolve", "failed to fetch") Do I possibly need to configure the connection? The machine says it's there, and the IP address looks right (maybe a DNS thing?) Things that make you go "HMMMMMM..."
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Originally posted by tralfazz0couldn't ping, couldn't install firefox (bunch of error messages incl. "could not resolve", "failed to fetch") Do I possibly need to configure the connection? ...
You should be able to ignore all the ndiswrapper posts though, because your rt2500 driver should load without a problem... ndiswrapper is a way to run the Windows driver in Linux... I really doubt you need to do that.
Good luck!
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Originally posted by tralfazz0ok, I'll look into that. I find it odd that I was able to download updates, though.
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Right after install, I downloaded updates. I've been tinkering with network configuration, and I think that i may have found the culprit. For some reason, the computer stubbornly insists that there is an ethernet connection using the IP address of 192.168.0.7, even though my router default gateway is 192.168.1.1. At the moment, I'm trying to get it to accept manual configuration. In Linux, is it "ifconfig /all"? Can't seem to get that command to give up the info. "ifconfig" gives me some stuff, but not what I really want.
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Originally posted by tralfazz0...the computer stubbornly insists that there is an ethernet connection using the IP address of 192.168.0.7, even though my router default gateway is 192.168.1.1. At the moment, I'm trying to get it to accept manual configuration. In Linux, is it "ifconfig /all"? Can't seem to get that command to give up the info. "ifconfig" gives me some stuff, but not what I really want.
(Oh yeah, please don't mistake my attempts at helping you with great advice from an expert... I don't consider myself to much more than a novice... you might want to start a new thread in the hardy/networking forum to generate some more views... I'd post the lspci info and anything else you have put together).
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