I have a new Macbook Pro from January 2008. This model wasn't yet referred to in the debian wiki, so i had a little difficulty at first. I also couldn't remember how to figure out what my wireless card was, and thus which drivers it needed, so ended up typing in a load of different commands. Here are some of the useful ones:

Have done quite a bit recently. Got a bike, and been on a bike ride (pictures) as well as starting back at school. Had difficulties getting online there, although the networking and IT support is fantastic. I think that is mainly due to the fact that I'm running debian on powerpc, a unique minority amongst computer users at the school - and probably on a wider basis than that as well.

I recently started back at school and, being one of the leading academic postgraduate institutions in the world, there is very good network access. However, not surprisingly, the support for linux is minimal - and being that I run Debian on an old powerbook, the computer help desk people all seemed to be more impressed with my machine but unable to help. They use Red Hat, though, and I was able to get one of the guys to show me the dhcp server logs, which was great as I could then tell what was working or not...

One of the great difficulties I had was getting the wireless configured on my new setup. There are many links and howtos scattered around the internet, but actually not one of them was what I needed - or really explained the nitty-gritty details: they all just skimmed over a few bits, presumably assuming that if you're clever enough to get debian running, you must know how to get the networking sorted. Or, maybe I just missed the ones that could have really helped me.

The result is, I've decided to write some brief notes about what I did to get stuff working. It should also be noted that I'm prompted to do this not only by dkg but also cos I'm trying to clean up my homedir a little bit, and I had some old notes lying around that would otherwise get lost and forgotten.