Atheros AR5007EG wireless in Slackware 13 64bit - how to activate it?
Okay, thanks to the folks who helped with my last problem I now have a working (almost!) Slackware 13 install on my Samsung R60+ laptop :)
"startx" gets me into KDE no problems, so there's a reasonably familiar GUI to muck around in, but I think that I'll need help getting the wireless networking going. It would be nice to do this in KDE, but I don't think it's going to be possible at the moment. Running netconfig was confusing, as I've never had to do it before. So imagine if you will: I've just booted Slackware. I'm sitting, logged in as root for the time being, at the command prompt. I'd like to get my wireless card (Atheros AR5007EG) working. Can anyone walk me through the commands I'll need to execute (bear in mind that I don't even know how to edit a config file yet) in order to get this thing on the internet? I've tried reading the docs (slackbook) and googling, but with no luck so far - I don't understand what they're on about! Win7 does this for me, but I understand that in order to gain knowledge I need to get my hands dirty. Cheers, D. |
Always nice to help a local user.
Okay, lets see the output from Code:
lsmod|grep ath Code:
locate ath5k |
Wow, Scunny :) Nice to meet you!
Here's the results: Code:
lsmod|grep ath: D. |
Locate is just a nice and breezy way of doing a search, it takes it from a generated database. That failing is no big deal, especially since the modules are loaded anyway (So we'll fix that after).
Right; first things first. What are you using to connect/ try to connect to the wireless? What program? |
Okay, I fixed the "locate" error - here's the output:
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/usr/src/linux-2.6.33/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h D. |
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Then I found an app called wpa_gui, but that can't even see the network, let alone connect to it. I've no idea how to connect from a command line. Not doing very well, am I? D. |
Ah... the crux. Okay, what about wired? Does that work? If it does, install wicd, its a connection manager, and as far as I'm concerned, the best out there.
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How would I go about installing wicd without a network connection? I can transfer files over from a USB drive, but you'll have to walk me through the steps one by one! If you feel that it would be better for me to research how to do this myself, then please don't hesitate to say so! D. |
wicd should be in the /extra directory on your Slackware DVD, or from that directory on any of the mirrors.
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Oh, installing it is the easy part, so I'll walk you through that one ;)
Right okay, lets grab source and build that: http://wicd.sourceforge.net/download.php EDIT: Oh yeah, or do it that way |
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This page, Slackware Links is great for all sorts of information, not only about Slackware, but Linux in general too.
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Ok, I've found wicd on the DVD - running KDE atm, so it's easy to find. I've opened a bash prompt window, and launched pkgtool, and choose the "install packages from some other directory" option - but although I'm fairly certain that my DVD drive is /dev/sr0 it says that the path is invalid. I tried the path listed by KDE, but that's invalid too! (/media/SlackDVD/extra/wicd\)
Where am I going wrong now? Edit: Bugger! It's case sensistive! Gonna have to watch that :) pkgtool installed it, now I just have to figure out how to run it. D. |
My DVD drive is /dev/hda, try that.
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cat /etc/mtab Code:
df |
Yeeeessssss!
Found that wicd had been installed by pkgtool into the KDE "start" menu, under internet tools - ran it, entered the key and all is weel - posting this from Firefox under slack13 :-D Thanks for all the help guys, especially you James. This is great - and now I have a net connection to this machine it will be easy to get things installed and running. Now I have to go read that site someone posted in my other thread about the command line - I suspect I'll be spending no small amount of time in there! Thanks again, D. |
No worries, good to see its working well
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So here it goes. Alien Bob made a perfect tutorial for getting this job done in Slackware. Atheros is the ideal chipset since it has execellent linux drivers. The ath5k is part of the kernel since Slackware 12.x. See http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...ckware:network PLEASE, PRETTY PRETTY PLEASE, read this page. It contains more factual knowledge than what's available elsewhere on the net. |
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I know that the standard answer here would be to go do some basic research but with no internet connection, it's difficult to get answers to questions (such as "how do I get a list of drives/devices?") and now, thanks to these kind folks I've managed to get things in a good enough state that I can branch out on my own. But thanks anyway, I shall try and search better in future. D. |
That post wasn't quite right relevant anyway; the modules were there and loaded anyway, it was just a case of installing a network manager type program.
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