Resolution, Wireless setup

[woodmd2]

Really need some help. I'm a Linux and Debian noob and need some advice to get my Toshiba 7140 and Debian working in harmony.

Current problem is the video resolution is 800x600 and if I select Screen Resolution from Desktop preferences it only offers 800x600 or 640x480. How do I get it to display 1024x768?

I also have a Linksys Network PC Card WPC11 ver3 and from the Linksys page I get a driver for Linux, but being a windows user for years I'm looking for things like "Install!" or "setup" but I don't see it so how do I install it??

If anyone can offer advice please do, and please don't assume I know anything so if you tell me to enter a command I'll really need you to tell me how and where.

Need someone to save me before I go limping back to windows.

Thanks

[Vergil83]

for the resolution issue, go to the command line and do

su
nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

then scroll down halfway. Add your desired resolutions. Here is an example to try to make it look like

SubSection "Display"
       Depth           24
       Modes          "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

for your wireless card install linux-wlan-ng by down this on the command line

su (if you haven't done this already)
apt-get install linux-wlan-ng

then do

su (if you haven't done this already)
nano etc/wlan/wlan.conf

and replace with what this site says
http://www.practicallynetworked.com/...pc11_linux.htm

[woodmd2]

Thanks, I'm getting closer.

The file you quoted for the vide did not exist however I found a file XF86config-4 that I opened and made the changes as suggested and I'm now running at 1024x768...Excellent

Now I'm working on the WLAN, I entered the command in the terminal window and got the following;
Portege:~# su
Portege:~# apt-get install linux-wlan-ng
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package linux-wlan-ng is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package linux-wlan-ng has no installation candidate

Any advice?

[Vergil83]

ok, I didn't know you were using Sarge. Sadly, linux-wlan isn't in sarge offically. However it is avaible from other servers. What you can do is

su
nano /etc/apt/sources.list

and add this line

deb http://www.linex.org/sources/linex/debian sarge linex

now do

apt-get update
apt-get install linux-wlan-ng

now it should be installed (cross fingers )

[woodmd2]

Thanks Virgil,

The sad thing is I didn't even know myself that I was using DebianSarge ......

Anyway, your advice was excellent and the application installed....

Now for the tricky bit, getting the thing to work

Is there any client that I can move around or am I still in the command line world?


My wlan config below if it helps;

# This file is sourced by all configuration scripts.
#
# The WLAN_DEVICES variable identifies the device names of each WLAN device.
# If you have more than one, make sure each one is identified in a whitespace
# separated list that's assigned to WLAN_DEVICES.

card "Instant Wireless Network PC CARD Version 01.02" manfid 0x0156, 0x0002
bind "prism2_cs"


WLAN_DEVICES="wlan0"

# Below is the list of channels to scan, when we scan.
ChannelList="01:02:03:04:05:06:07:08:09:0a:0b:00:0 0:00"
# Below is the min and max time we linger on a channel during a scan.
ChannelMinTime=200
ChannelMaxTime=250
# And here we have the master scan toggle.
WLAN_SCAN=n

##########
# Note: To bind to a specific network, change the SSID to something different
# and create the file /etc/wlan/wlancfg-<SSID> with your network-
# specific settings. If this file is not present, the settings in
# /etc/wlancfg/wlancfg-DEFAULT are used.
#
# for example:
# SSID_wlan0="linux-wlan"
# This expects a file called "/etc/wlan/wlancfg-linux-wlan" to be present.
#
# Use a SSID of "" to associate with any network in range.
#########

SSID_wlan0="BTHomeHub-95E0"
ENABLE_wlan0=y
iwconfig eth0 enc on
iwconfig eth0 enc 176b5ca3acde3e2ff681ab4c6b
#SSID_wlan1=""
#ENABLE_wlan1=n
#SSID_wlan2=""
#ENABLE_wlan2=n

[Vergil83]

there are several programs that could work (wifi-radar, network-manager, kwifi) however, many times doing something with command line is easier (I think this may be the time). Once you have your network card in run this

ifconfig wlan0 up

and see if any errors occur. if yes run lscpi and ifconfig and see if anyone wirelss device is listed. If no error occurs run

iwconfig wlan0 essid"BTHomeHub-95E0"

then see if any errors occur. If not, run

dhclient wlan0

you might also try the before mentioned programs, but they are normally light on the error messages (and therefore help)