luke9511

ok at the time of this post im on linux and connected through the eithernet port on my computer through my home network,now i got 2 things by my clock 1 is for the eithernet connection and the other is a orange ball with a X in it and it says network is down.please configure your network

i used everest home on windows and found this Dell Wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card

ok heres the first part hope it makes sense to ya 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3) 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02) 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1068 (rev 03) [root@localhost trey]# [trey@localhost trey]$ su bash: [trey@localhost: command not found [root@localhost trey]# Password: bash: Password:: command not found [root@localhost trey]# [root@localhost trey]# lspci bash: [root@localhost: command not found [root@localhost trey]# 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. Mobile Graphics Controller (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller bash: 02:01.0: command not found [root@localhost trey]# 02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318 (rev 02) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' [root@localhost trey]# 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1068 (rev 03) bash: syntax error near unexpected token `(' heres the 2nd part Module Size Used by isofs 31352 0 udf 86340 0 md5 3584 1 ipv6 230916 6 rfcomm 32348 0 l2cap 19876 5 rfcomm bluetooth 39076 4 rfcomm,l2cap snd-seq-oss 31232 0 snd-seq-midi-event 6080 1 snd-seq-oss snd-seq 47440 4 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq-midi-event snd-pcm-oss 49480 0 snd-mixer-oss 17376 3 snd-pcm-oss snd-intel8x0 30124 2 snd-ac97-codec 69392 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-pcm 81800 2 snd-pcm-oss,snd-intel8x0 snd-timer 20356 2 snd-seq,snd-pcm snd-page-alloc 7400 2 snd-intel8x0,snd-pcm gameport 3328 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-mpu401-uart 5856 1 snd-intel8x0 snd-rawmidi 19300 1 snd-mpu401-uart snd-seq-device 6344 3 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-rawmidi snd 45988 11 snd-seq-oss,snd-seq,snd-pcm-oss,snd-mixer-oss,snd-intel8x0, snd-ac97-codec,snd-pcm,snd-timer,snd-mpu401-uart,snd-rawmidi,snd-seq-device soundcore 7008 3 snd af_packet 16072 0 ds 17572 2 yenta_socket 18624 0 pcmcia_core 59972 2 ds,yenta_socket thermal 9928 0 tc1100-wmi 5028 0 processor 13736 1 thermal fan 2756 0 button 4624 0 battery 7044 0 ac 3204 0 e100 28160 0 mii 4224 1 e100 ide-cd 37280 0 cdrom 37724 1 ide-cd loop 12520 0 nls_iso8859-1 3680 1 ntfs 147964 1 nvram 6856 0 evdev 7648 1 ppa 10408 0 parport_pc 30976 0 imm 10856 0 scsi_mod 104044 2 ppa,imm parport 33896 3 ppa,parport_pc,imm ehci-hcd 26244 0 uhci-hcd 28752 0 usbcore 103172 4 ehci-hcd,uhci-hcd ext3 121352 2 jbd 49432 1 ext3

i ran some console commands in linux and will be posting what came up when i get the chance

my wireless card is built in and i dont know what it is sense its from dell but so far so good it works awsome

well i have answered my own question,i took the risk and installed it and it works great,my wireless card dont work on linux but its cool now i can learn more about linux but thx for your reply :D

i have great news i partitioned the hard drive on my new laptop and got linux installed on it,but thx for your help/advice :D

i have a dell latitude 110L laptop and i just want to know if anyone has tryed to install linux on this type of laptop and if you have what distro works best?

im going to try and install it on my laptop some time today

well im only guessing or what ever and theres no error messages that i can see

ok i did the alt1 thing and it seemed to install but it wouldnt boot

i dont know any info on my hard drive also im trying to install mandrake on a 2nd hard drive

i have a SATA hard drive but not cd rom

hello all,well as the post says im having problems with installing mandrake i have a new computer and i would like to do a dual boot of windows and linux,now when i put the first mandrake cd in and restart it asks me if i want to install i say yes then it goes to where its checking for usb devices and stuff and while its still at that screen before it can go on further with the install it says it cant detect my cd rom drive or something like that,anyone got any ideas about that? also i can get to a screen that has a bunch of text and at the bottem it says boot: and i cant type stuff and i have tryed linux ide=nodma,that didnt work so i tryed linux acpi=off,that didnt work so then i tryed linux noapic and that didnt work so i dont know what to do and to help you a bit heres my computer specs: Compaq Presario SR1650NX Processer:AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 2.2ghz RAM:1gig Video:ATI XPress 200 256mb onboard video Hard Drive:250gig Drives:1 DVD+RW/CD-RW and 1 CD-ROM