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[quote="Saint of Killers"]You don't have an ethernet port you can jack into?[/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>stevo32</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:23 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Don't build it as they explain it on their site, get it prebuilt from <a href="http://sulphur.freshrpms.net/" target="_blank">http://sulphur.freshrpms.net/</a></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>jebba</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:15 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">punting to slaveware as it looks like ndiswrapper thread now.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>JacobNottingham</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 11:31 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Ok thanks for the help, this ndiswrapper looks like what i need however, when i run make distclean during installation i get this error: <br /> <br />Makefile:23: *** Kernel tree not found please set KBUILD to configured Kernel. Stop. <br />make [1]: Leaving directory '/ndiswrapper-1.53/driver' <br />make: *** [clean] Error 2 <br /> <br />Any ideas why?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>gr00ve</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 11:00 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">[quote="JacobNottingham"]Speedtouch USB ASDL PPP connection to Wanadoo[/quote] <br /> <br />depending on the model of Speedtouch you might just need a regular ethernet cable like the guys already suggested above, connecting your modem and the puter. USB based ppoe connection via linux is a pain in the neck to setup. struggle a little with ndiswrapper, this will be easier then usb route.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>stevo32</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:20 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Looks like your wireless card unfortunately has a broadcom chipset. This will make things <span style="font-style: italic">difficult</span>, unfortunately. <br /> <br />You'll need to install the ndiswrapper package on your laptop and install the windows drivers for your laptop using that. <br /> <br />See <a href="http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/" target="_blank">http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php?/component/option,com_openwiki/Itemid,33/</a></span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>JacobNottingham</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:11 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I was a little confused by your suggestion: The internet connection im using has a connection from the phone line to the modem and then a usb connection from modem into the computer. <br /> <br />On my laptop I tried connecting a seperate ethernet cable straight to the phone line and also plugging in the usb connection to the modem. Heres what it gave me with either connection: <br /> <br />eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:1F:B9:44:C4 <br /> UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 <br /> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 <br /> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 <br /> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 <br /> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) <br /> Interrupt:19 Base address:0x1800 <br /> <br />lo Link encap:Local Loopback <br /> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 <br /> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host <br /> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 <br /> RX packets:3370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 <br /> TX packets:3370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 <br /> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 <br /> RX bytes:186516 (182.1 KiB) TX bytes:186516 (182.1 KiB) <br /> <br />Hope that helps</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>john maclean</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:42 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Plug your ethernet wire into your laptop. You should get an orange and green light flashing to signify that the lappy is getting some signals from the router/modem. You can then type /sbin/ifconfig in a terminal and show us the results.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>JacobNottingham</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 1:02 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">i do have an ethernet port on my laptop but im just as clueless as to what to do with it? The computer im using at the moment is using a Speedtouch USB ASDL PPP connection to Wanadoo broadband but it is not my connection. is it possible to temporarily use that to sort out wireless? will it require alot of setting up?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Saint of Killers</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 12:47 pm<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: </span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">You don't have an ethernet port you can jack into?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>JacobNottingham</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 11:13 am<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: No internet access! Help needed!</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Hi, im new to linux, just installed blag 90k on my laptop but im having trouble doing anything as i cannot connect to the internet! my only available connection is wireless and i have a Netgear Rangemax WN511b adapter. I really need help getting this set up so i can install packages and sort out other issues (see ntfs issues posted earlier!). I know i need the b43-fcutter tool but im not sure how to install it without the internet. can anyone help? Thanks in advance</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/BLAGlight/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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