[wplug] A question about proxy servers

[Terence J. Golightly]

Hey gang,

I recently tried to get online using my new gsky wifi adapter at school 
over at PTI.  I got down to the IT department to register the device 
(they need the MAC).  After getting that settled the it personnel and I 
attempt to get online.  Well, we got an ip address easily enough, but 
cannot configure for the proxy server to where I can run apt-get or get 
a web page.

We tried configuring http_proxy, but were not able to get through.  The 
Sys Admin was there (He also teaches my night class) and he was not 
aware of anything that would not permit access.

I'm using Lubuntu (light)Ubuntu it uses the LXDE and it works great on 
my gateway Solo 3500 with a 500Mhz PIII  512MB or Ram and 8MB of share 
video.

I initially had only Chrome and was trying to configure the proxy 
variables for that and had no success.  How can I check to see what a 
proxy server is or is not proxying?  What other variables besides maybe 
https_proxy that can be configured?  I tried have Wicd run a small 
script setting up the proxy variables before connection and unsetting 
them aftwards, but wicd would appear to just lockup.


Lastly, I know that google is my friend but I wanted to shake the tree 
here and see if anybody had any suggestions regarding the variables and 
running scripts in Wicd.  I seem to remember something to do with shell 
environment variables running only in the environment in which they were 
set.  I tried setting variables in an xterm box and they were accessible 
using the $set | grep <variable>, but when I tried to run them as a 
script, I run the same command in a different or the same terminal they 
are not set.  If you got this far thanks.  Look forward to your responses.

Terry