Leopard wireless issues and clean install

I've been wrestling with wireless problems since upgrading to Leopard (I've discussed my issues on this forum). I've tried all the suggested fixes I've found, but still have spotty wireless. I'm going to try a clean install next (erasing my hard drive). Any suggestions on how to do this and increase my chances of solving the problem? I'll have to install Tiger first, as I only have a Leopard upgrade disc (not full install).
Thanks in advance.

There is an Upgrade DVD. It's called the "CPU Drop-In DVD" and was being shipped with new Macs that had already been built when Leopard was released. Several of my clients received their new Mac's with Tiger after Leopard was released. It was a choice of either take back the computers and reformat them and then repackage them. Apple chose to just include the disc.
I suppose the DVD could do a fresh install on a machine it came with, or one that matched certain criteria.
Many users of older machines have tried to use these DVD's to install Leopard to their Mac's that otherwise meet the hardware requirements for Leopard. It didn't work. The installer refuses to install to the older machine.
http://www.google.com/search?q=Leopard+drop+in+dvdproblem
I have no information about how the installer verify's the suitability of a machine, but using the DVD on another computer would violate the EULA.
Another thought... If you do a fresh install of Leopard you will probably want to reinstall iLife from your Tiger DVD's. iLife is not on the retail DVD, and I don't think it's on the drop-in DVD.
You may want to make a bootable clone of your existing Leopard installation with SuperDuper, just in case there are any problems with the installation or there is no improvement. Then you can just re-clone your backup to your boot drive to save time and effort.

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Leopard wireless issue and responsibility

I've seen a bunch of posts here saying that the wireless problem many are having with Leopard isn't a 10.5 software issue--it's a hardware/third party issue, and Leopard is merely exposing a fault with routers or whatever.
I just wanted to say that even if that's true, it's Apple's responsibility. I've seen many posts where folks say they can connect with Windows and Tiger, but not with Leopard. If there's a router flaw that only shows up with Leopard, and not with Tiger or Windows, even if it's technically not Leopard's fault, it makes Apple look bad, and could hurt their reputation. If I was an IT person at a place with many Windows and Mac machines, and Leopard breaks the wireless while Tiger and Windows continue to work, I wouldn't get rid of the routers, I'd get rid of Leopard (again, even if technically Leopard isn't at fault).
Also, does anyone know definitively if the fault lies with Leopard or not? If anyone has any hard evidence either way, please provide it. I think there's a lot of speculating going on.

Jimtron wrote:
I've seen a bunch of posts here saying that the wireless problem many are having with Leopard isn't a 10.5 software issue--it's a hardware/third party issue, and Leopard is merely exposing a fault with routers or whatever.
I just wanted to say that even if that's true, it's Apple's responsibility. I've seen many posts where folks say they can connect with Windows and Tiger, but not with Leopard. If there's a router flaw that only shows up with Leopard, and not with Tiger or Windows, even if it's technically not Leopard's fault, it makes Apple look bad, and could hurt their reputation. If I was an IT person at a place with many Windows and Mac machines, and Leopard breaks the wireless while Tiger and Windows continue to work, I wouldn't get rid of the routers, I'd get rid of Leopard (again, even if technically Leopard isn't at fault).
Also, does anyone know definitively if the fault lies with Leopard or not? If anyone has any hard evidence either way, please provide it. I think there's a lot of speculating going on.
i was pretty mad when i started dropping signals and getting the "self-assigned ip" message from my d-link router after the 10.5.2 update.
but then i went out today and bought an apple airport extreme base station. i can't believe how easy it was to configure. i was up and running in 5 minutes or less.
and now my connection is stable (so far, anyway) and my download speed has jumped by a massive amount. yesterday, i was downloading a .dmg file and my transfer rate was 46 KB/s. i tried the same download just now and it was over 1.2 MB/s. i'm sure that's not the average speed boost, but it was certainly significant.
as for responsibility - well, yes, apples should play well with others. but now that i have an apple router - if i ever have to call applecare, at least they can't blame it on a 3rd party router!

Some issues after clean installing windows 7 pro 64bit

Hi,
I have a couple of issues, I clean installed windows 7 pro, 64bit, (vanilla) restored my license with ABR and used system update to download all the drivers. (no issues until here) But after restarting the system, I found this issues:
1. I have to put the bios in legacy mode for system to boot. Otherwise it gives me a "no operating system found" message. Is there any way to make a proper installation for the system to boot in UEFI and LEGACY?
2. System update didn't install thinkvantage center. (the program that stays in the taskbar). Should this be installed manually? Or system update should have installed it?
3*. I can not use lenovo driver page of my x120e. In IE it shows me repeatedly the wizard to choose my model, although I enter the correct info there. It starts all over again and again. Tried opera, I can see the drivers page, but I can't browse, or expand none of the sections. (all I can think of this, do I need java for the page to work?)
3*. UPDATE: After installing IE 9, java and flash player, still not working. Opera too. Google Chrome works fine. What's the matter with IE and OPERA? What component do I need to make IE work with lenovo drivers download page?
Can anyone help me? Never had to deal with these issues.
Thanks in advance
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My hardware: TP x120e 0596-2ru. Windows 7, sp1, 64Bit, English, installed in UEFI mode.

Hello,
Have you tried wiping the hard disk drive and reinstalling Windows 7 Professional x64 from the factory recovery discs while the BIOS is set to UEFI? If so, did that work?
Regards,
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Apps crashing, boot slow, want to wipe and clean install

Is there a good way to find what needs to be preserved in order to wipe and clean install? I tried Archive and Install, and though it helped, I'm still having issues with scanner software:
<pre>
Host Name: redpoint
Date/Time: 2007-02-26 17:09:52.385 -0700
OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8L2127)
Report Version: 4
Command: VueScan
Path: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan
Parent: WindowServer [63]
Rosetta: Yes
Version: 8.4.12 (8.4.12)
PID: 224
Thread: Unknown
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE (0x0002) at 0x000008b4
Thread 0:
0 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb80a5453 0xb8000000 + 676947
1 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb809f925 0xb8000000 + 653605
2 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb80bd24e 0xb8000000 + 774734
3 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb811de0d spinlockwrapper + 1985
Thread 1:
0 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb823369b strchr + 72
1 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb81cef17 pthreadcondwait + 3114
2 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb816831a catchexception_raise_stateidentity + 318
3 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb8167856 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 177220
4 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb816774d CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 176955
5 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb8168418 catchexception_raise_stateidentity + 572
6 com.hamrick.vuescan 0xb820480c pthread_create + 1124
Unknown thread crashed with unknown flavor: 1
redpoint:~/Library/logs/CrashReporter mark$ ls
Address Book.crash.log Mail.crash.log dmnotifyd.crash.log
BackupHelper.crash.log PhotoStudio.crash.log firefox-bin.crash.log
BitTorrent.crash.log QuickTime Player.crash.log iCal.crash.log
CanoScan Toolbox 5.0.crash.log RealPlayer.crash.log iDVD.crash.log
DPE.crash.log Safari.crash.log iTunes.crash.log
EEventManager.crash.log SuperDuper!.crash.log javaldx.crash.log
EPSON Scanner Monitor.crash.log SystemUIServer.crash.log lssave.crash.log
HP Image Zone.crash.log TWAINBridge.crash.log sh.crash.log
HP PrecisionScan Pro.crash.log VLC.crash.log soffice.bin.crash.log
HP Scanjet Manager.app.crash.log VueScan.crash.log
HP Uninstaller.crash.log X11.crash.log
redpoint:~/Library/logs/CrashReporter mark$ vim vuescan.crash.log
0x94724000 - 0x9473efff libRIP.A.dylib /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/ CoreGraphics.framework/Versions/A/Resources/libRIP.A.dylib
0x9b6bf000 - 0x9b6c1fff Interposers.dylib /usr/libexec/oah/Shims/Interposers.dylib
0xb8000000 - 0xb82d9fff com.hamrick.vuescan 8.4.12 /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan
Translated Code Information:
Rosetta Version: 17.15
Args: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan -psn02490369
Exception: EXCBADACCESS (0x0001)
Thread 0: Crashed (0xb7fff9d0, 0xb80a5453)
0x000cb408: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0xca408
0x0007e850: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x7d850
0x0007eecc: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x7decc
0x0007ef60: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x7df60
0x0007a078: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x79078
0x0002ad90: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x29d90
0x00037430: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x36430
0x90809bbc: /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreFoundation.framework/Versions/A/CoreFoundation : _CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 0xac4
0x93203fa0: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fra mework/Versions/A/HIToolbox : _RunCurrentEventLoopInMode + 0x124
0x932035b4: /System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/HIToolbox.fra mework/Versions/A/HIToolbox : _ReceiveNextEventCommon + 0x1ac
0x00141248: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x1402480x00141330: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x140330
0x0025bb9c: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x25ab9c0x00003168: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x2168
0x000027fc: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x17fc0x000026a4: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : _mh_executeheader + 0x16a4
0x00000000: /Applications/VueScan.app/Contents/MacOS/VueScan : + 0x0
PPC Thread State
srr0: 0x00000000 srr1: 0x00000000 vrsave: 0x00000000
cr: 0xXXXXXXXX xer: 0x20000000 lr: 0x000cb408 ctr: 0x90003260
r00: 0x00000000 r01: 0xbfffea20 r02: 0x00000000 r03: 0x00000000
r04: 0x0031af24 r05: 0xfefefeff r06: 0x80808080 r07: 0x00000000
r08: 0x00000000 r09: 0x00000008 r10: 0x63fefeff r11: 0x48444044
r12: 0x00808080 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x00000000 r15: 0x00000000
r16: 0x0000c350 r17: 0x00000000 r18: 0x00000004 r19: 0xbffff010
r20: 0x00000001 r21: 0x002ac930 r22: 0x17e5d018 r23: 0x00000000
r24: 0x17ebf000 r25: 0x17e5d000 r26: 0x00318034 r27: 0x00000001
r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0x170a4000 r30: 0x17fd1000 r31: 0x000cb328
</pre>
Any help would be appreciated.
MacBook White (1st, gen, base configuration) Mac OS X (10.4.8) May '05 Switcher, never looked back

Archive and Install preserves all of your apps and prefs. including VueScan and something is messed up with your VueScan install. Try removing VueScan and any associated files (search for any files containing "VueScan") and reboot. If you still have problems post back.

How can I wipe my hard drive and clean install Mountain Lion?

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I made my partition and am currently reinstalling mountain lion to put on my flash drive. I'm using Lion disk maker 2 thats compatible with mountain lion. I'm doing it right, correct?

Erase And Clean Install Error

Hi Guys,
I'm attempting to reinstall OSX on a Macpro - 10.4.10 using the Erase and Clean Install. All goes well with the first installation disc and all is going well with the second disc until it gets to garageband where it freezes and then stops installing and says that I need to try and reinstall again - I''ve tried three times now - is there something I am doing wrong or need to do differently to bypass this problem.
Thanks

First off, there is no such thing as an erase and clean install option. These are these Mac OS X installation options:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614
So what are you doing according to the actual installer?
Message was edited by: a brody

Issues with clean install of Snow Leopard in Leopard MacBook

Hi all,
This is the sequence of events:
1) MacBook from 2007, running Leopard.
2) Got Snow Leopard, did the install on top of the existing OS, just as an "update".
2) After machine restarts, several issues were detected, apparently all OS related: Finder crashed, Apple Mail didn't even open, etc.
3) Download software update from Apple.com (for "performance improvement"). Installer itself crashes!! Can't install update.
4) Decided to go for a clean install with complete restore of hard drive
5) Put in Snow Leopard DVD, boot from it, erase and format hard drive. Got a "Can´t install... contact the manufacturer" error.
6) Don't have my original Leopard OS DVDs at hand at the moment, but will try that later.
Question is: to do a clean install, after restoring the hard drive, do I need to install Leopard first, and only after that Snow Leopard?
(I tried installing Leopard from the DVDs of another MacBook (2008), that didn´t work either. I gather it could be small hardware differences, so I'm still hopeful for when I try with my original restore DVDs...)
Any help will be greatly appreciated!! I mean, this is was supposed to be a no-brainer... :-/

a brody wrote:
1. You have some peripheral or RAM that is not compatible with the installation.
See my FAQ*: http://www.macmaps.com/badram.html if there are no peripherals attached. You need a minimum of 1 GB of RAM to install Snow Leopard.
1. No peripherals. RAM is only what came with original machine. Have 2GB.
a brody wrote:
2. Your machine has some hardware issue preventing installation:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
2. Will verify this later with the original installation CDs. It would be bad news... my MAC was running completely fine before Snow Leopard!!
a brody wrote:
3. You are using the wrong installer disc. For a 2007 machine, only a copy of Snow Leopard which looks like * that does not say Upgrade or DropIn or OEM will work.
3. I have an Install DVD, just like that one.
Thanks a lot for the input! Greatly appreciated.

Leopard hangs starting /usr/sbin/ocspd after both upgrade and clean install

I have a clean SuperDuper backup, so I can always go back to Tiger, but since I've paid for Leopard, it sure would be nice to run it!
I've got a MacBookPro with 4GB of RAM that's only a few months old. It has been happily running 10.4.10.
Earlier today, I tried an Upgrade to Leopard, which appeared to work, though the system would not boot. The gray screen with the Apple logo and the spinner appears, and then the spinner stops. Powering off and restarting hangs at the same place. Booting off the external drive properly boots Tiger and mounts the internal drive on the Tiger desktop, so the internal drive appears to be fine. Disk Utility says it's fine. It just hangs.
Since I have a perfect bootable backup, I go for the clean install. This first appears to work, and lets me boot Leopard. I restore Documents and Music and begin to install apps, and I notice that some apps appear to be hung. After installing each app, I run it, enter whatever license information is required and update to the latest rev, and quit it. At some point I realized that the last few apps I'd quit are still running. A quick check of top reveals that none of them are chewing up a lot of CPU, but when I quit top, I can't get back to a shell prompt, either. Opening a new Terminal tab doesn't get me to a prompt, either. I finally hold down the power key to reboot.
It hangs at the same gray screen. Disk Utility still says the disk is clean.
I use Command-V to boot in verbose mode, and I note that the last line that appears is:
/usr/sbin/ocspd[86]: starting
I've rebooted several times, and that's always the last line that displays. Apparently something has scrambled ocspd?
I'm going to try another clean install, and avoid GlowWorm FW Lite this time around. I'd installed a bunch of apps, but I think that was the first one to hang on me.
Anyone else with similar experiences? I've never had trouble with OSX upgrades before, so I'm still kinda in shock about this.

I restarted in Safe Mode (hold down shift), which did start!
I then removed GlowWorm 1.5.3beta by simpy dragging it to the trash (couldn't find an uninstaller anywhere).
Now when I boot, it still hangs, but ocspd is no longer the last message displayed. Instead, I get 'Login Windows Application Started' last sometimes, and mds complaining that there was an unclean shutdown of /.Spotlight-V100/long/path/name sometimes.
I'm trying Safe Boot again, but I'm not sure what else to try to remove! I think I'm back to Clean Install again after all.

Erase disk and clean install - The only way

Just a note to say that I tried Archive and Install, and Migrate, and was beset with many of the problems discussed here. I messed about for hours trying to sort this and that. Then I decided that it was time for a fresh start.
I hated the idea of starting again from scratch installing all my progs one by one. It took me about a day, as I tried each program for glitches after install. But it felt more satisfying than trying to fix a busted system.
There were no glitches. I stayed away from progs with known issues.
http://www.macintouch.com/leopard/compat.html
I started with the progs I can't live without, and added the others as needed. I kept a backup of my old system and dragged in prefs for many apps as needed, which speeded things up and made it less painful. My main problem after that was importing Mail, as it seemed to be corrupted or at least Mail could not deal with the import. I got around that by using a prog called emix to mbox converter and imported the mbox file. That worked fine.
The result is that now my system is clean of all the dross of old prefs and progs I did not use anyway.
AND Leopard works really well.
I know it won't solve all the problems, and all the other install methods should work, but we have to remember every computer is different due to the soft we put in. A major system release is the burning edge. I'm so curious that I always get burned a bit. I know I should wait for the first update from apple before jumping in, like all my sensible friends. Of course, I do have a laptop still running Tiger so I'm not that brave!
All The Best
Gordon

Gordon, I think that for must users, the simple upgrade is the way to go, but only with a confirmed backup. I upgraded my "old" MBP and the process went perfectly and took a bit over an hour. Everything works and it works better than with Tiger.
I think the choice depends on how old the computer is, how many programs are installed, how good the hardware is, and how well prepared the computer and the user are for the upgrade.
If someone has a lot of special software installed, it's possible that they have some combination that was not tested simply because it's impossible to do so.
I would still recommend an upgrade (with that backup) then, if that does not go swimmingly, an erase and install.
I did a clean install on my G5 only because I wanted to keep the Tiger in the tank, so to speak, so the machine is dual-boot - one internal HD for each OS.
But, to each his own.
No piece of software will ever install smoothly on every computer. That's a given. The goal is to maximize the number of computers it will install on smoothly. This is also the reason Apple has cut off some older computers from this upgrade.
Perfection is for the other world, not this one.
However, with well over 2 million Leopards leaping out in the wild, I can only assume that most installs went perfectly or this board would be inaccessible for all the traffic we would have.
You obviously know what you are doing, and you did what it took.
I did one upgrade and one clean install and I would leave the choice up to the user.
But only if they have that all-important clone standing by in the sidelines.

No wireless adapter after clean install

I have an X61 and did a clean install of Windows Vista Ultimate and now my internal wireless adapter card is not showing in my device manager. It worked before the install, so I know the hardware is there. What do I do?

Inside your device manager, do you have Yellow Question Marks next to other devices or any issues with your chipset drivers.
The WiFi adapter drivers are useless if the chipset that supports the socket, that supports the WiFi card are malfunctioning or missing.
Hopefully, you aren't being encumbered by user mode privileges and you've thoroughly executed the system in manager / Admin mode and experienced the same issues.
Don't just sit there, take a second and use the Kudo's button to compliment the people who help you.

Any issues with clean install of Lion having Creative Cloud installed

I am going from Snow Leopard to Lion and want to do a clean install. I would assume that I deactivate the software before the install which will allow me to download and reinstall all Creative Cloud apps. Is this correct or are there other issues I need to be aware of - thanks.

You are correct.

Issues after Clean Install

I erased my HD and did a clean install of Leopard to speed up my system.
After the install I did a software update and while restarting a window popped up that said something about Boot Cache. It seemed like it was taking a long time, so I left it overnight.
The computer was up this morning, so I started to install applications. I then did another software update..
I just installed iLife 08 and hit restart. Now the computer seems to be hanging at the part where the little circular dots are supposed to show up at the bottom middle of the screen.
The reason I did a clean install is because one of the issues I was having is that the computer took FOREVER to restart. A clean install doesn't seem to have fixed the problem.......? That doesn't seem right.
I am on a G5 Quad. There is nothing on my system except 10.5, Final Cut Studio 2, and iLife....

motherwell wrote:
I erased my HD and did a clean install of Leopard to speed up my system.
A clean install would mean that you did not import any previous files or settings but after a full erase you installed Leopard with all new settings and programs manually.
If you imported any old files or settings, you dirtied your install, possibly with whatever caused your original problem.
It is always better to solve or fix an issue rather than to start over again, because sometimes the problem is obvious.
If after a true clean install a problem recurs, then your hardware is at fault - RAM, HD, some driver, board or something like that. Again, it's always better to diagnose a problem and find out what is/was causing it.

How can I restore my contacts from a snow leopard time machine to clean instal of Lion

I recently did a clean instal of Lion (which was wayyyyy to difficult by the way--why this wasnt an easy option to begin with I do not know and am not happy about).
In my sleep depravation from the previous problem I accidentally synced my contacts from mobile me to take my computer contacts (deleting all my contacts from my phone and computer).
Fortunately I have a back up on my time machine from my previously installed Snow Leopard.
I tried to restore these files, but they seem to not be compatible.
Steps I took:
1.) -Opened Address Book in Lion
-Opened time machine
notes: i could not go backward in time with lion address book
2.) -Copied files from time machine address book to desktop
-completely unable to open files.
I do not want to use migration assistant because it seems to want to take ALL my files over and frankly thats not what I want to do at all.
PLEASE HELP!

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Re: Satellite U305-S7477 - issue with clean install from recovery disks

Im trying to do a clean OS install of Vista onto a new hard drive, the install runs correctly but at the end, instead of it requesting me to create a user id and password as the machine does at first boot up when new, it shows a login for administrator with a message that the administrator account has been disabled, and another to input a pre-existing user name and password, which I do not have since this is a clean install.
Does Toshiba want me to only run the recovery on top of a pre-existing OS install? That would be quite a limitation, and would prevent one from recovering their machine after a hard drive dies.
Any thoughts? I did look thru the docs for a default password, but if it's there I didn't find it.
Thanks in advance!

Hello
To be honest your issue is strange to me. The fact is, for operating system installation you can use either Microsoft installations DVD or Toshiba recovery DVD. In both cases when installation is almost done you must enter your username and password (optional). There is no difference at all.
I have done recovery installation many times under WXP and Vista. No difference at all. Username must be entered always and I didnt notice such issue as described in your posting.
So please try to install OS again and be careful with each installations step. All recovery installations images are tested and I cannot imagine Toshibas people can oversight something like this.

A caper of missing eth0, wireless issues, and missing tools

Hello all!
I'm a recent Arch convert from Xubuntu, and I've had some troubles installing it on my Gateway NV79. The first problem was that of going to black screen. This issue I remedied by entering "i915.modeset=0" at the end of the kernel line. This allowed me to boot into the live environment, and it installed correctly, but several things are amiss. Firstly, in the package group selection menu, I only get "base" and "base-devel," (I'm installing from a core image on CD, by the way) and while this isn't nessicarily an error, the Beginner's Guide and Installation Guide both imply that there would be more selection. I also cannot find my eth0. According to the Configuring Network wiki page, I need to issue "hwdetect --show-net," in order to find out which module works with my ethernet card (lspci tells me it's a Broadcom Netlink BCM57780) but am told that I have no hwdetect, either in live or installed environs. I also cannot get wifi to work, using either of the methods outlined in the wiki page for wpa_supplicant.
Any suggestions? Any command output or config files I should copy-paste?
ninja edit: OH, and I wasn't sure whether or not I should put this in the Newbie Corner, or Laptops forums. If I've done wrong, could a mod please move this? Sorry for the inconvenience.
Last edited by Ansikt (2010-11-15 03:00:28)

You did it! I haven't run ping yet, but here's what ifconfig has to say:
ifconfig -a wrote:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:26:22:98:07:93
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:16
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 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:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 70:1A:04:9A:F6:DB
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)
And since you asked:
lspci wrote:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57780 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

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