On 4/13/06, Moinak Ghosh <Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com> wrote:
> Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I'm excited to report that I just booted and ran Belenix 0.4.2 Linux
> > on my Dell Latitude D610.
> >
> > Since I'm new to Belenix, I've not get got around to discovering
> > whether it can support my Wireless LAN yet.
> >
> You can execute:
>
> ifconfig -a plumb
> ifconfig -a
>
> You will see one default entry starting with lo0. You will get more
> entries depending
> on whether your ethernet and wireless are supported. Can you post
> what entries you
> are seeing ?
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu
8232 index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
bge0: flags=1004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 10.7.5.235 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 10.7.255.255
ether 0:14:22:d5:bf:e9
iwi0: flags=1004802<BROADCAST,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 3
inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0
ether 0:16:6f:41:d:eb
I'll send this separately to you as attachment text files too.
>
> For more on Network Config and Wireless see the BeleniX FAQ:
>
> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Belenix_FAQ
Ack. I'll visit there. Apparently, there are certain configuration
with wireless networks in our office. I'll investigate this separately
and write in with my findings.
> There are a few things that you can try out. For eg. after creating a
> non-root user
> (see Adding and Deleting Users in the BeleniX FAQ) login as that user
> and execute
> startxfce or startkde.
> <http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/Belenix_FAQ#Adding_and_Deleting_users>
Here's what I did after booting off the CD-ROM:
1. start in command prompt only mode.
2. /usr/sbin/useradd sriram
3. create the home directory for the user sriram at /home/sriram
startkde and startxfce both give me the following error messages:
/usr/bin/startxfce: /dev/msglog: cannot create
/usr/bin/startkde: /dev/msglog: cannot create
> Use Kdevelop to create and build C/C++ projects.
I'll try this separately. In fact, I'll try all of the KDE apps and
send you a "testing" report :)
>
> Check whether audio is working:
>
> Execute ls -l /dev/audio - If you see a symbolic link to sound/0
> then the audio
> device was recognized. Get into KDE, start SuperTux and check whether
> you are
> getting the music.
SuperTux works just fine. Juk was able to play an mp3, but Amarok went
silent and wouldn't play anything at all.
>
> Also as Pavan mentioned getting the hardware profile will help.
I've got a lot of hardware information, I'll send these to you via mail.
-- Sriram
