Can't find wireless card

Mupple · 10-22-2010, 10:46 AM

Ok, I'm running slackware 13.1 on an old Dell inspiron 6000 (dual booted with xp) xp can find the wireless card but slackware can't. If I do a ifconfig I can see eth0 and lo (the loopback) but nothing else (I think a wireless card should come up as wlan0...?). How can I switch it on?

Nylex · 10-22-2010, 11:13 AM

What kind of wireless device is it? Can you run lspci and post the output here (assuming it's a PCI/PCMCIA device; if not, run lsusb instead)?

falcom · 10-22-2010, 12:23 PM

dell work with a broadcom wireless cards try with
$ lspci
you have something lik this
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4321 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

Mupple · 10-25-2010, 08:07 AM

Yeah I've got this line with lspci:

03:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)

How do I activate it though?

prayag_pjs · 10-25-2010, 08:15 AM

Hi,

Try this

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...2200bg-316612/
and this

wicd http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

Nylex · 10-25-2010, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prayag_pjs

wicd http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

FWIW, Slackware has a package for Wicd - it's in the "extra" directory.

Mupple · 10-25-2010, 02:38 PM

Wicd worked for me. Cheers. For some reason it wasn't in my /extra directory though (maybe because it was an install cd rather than DVD?)

Nylex · 10-25-2010, 02:48 PM

Did you have an "extra" directory? If so, it should have been in there. If not, then you probably didn't download that CD (extra is on CD 4).