dyoakum

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I'm just getting started in learning the ways of Linux/Slackware. Slackware is what we use at my company, so I'm trying to increase my proficiency so I purchased a DELL Mini 9 with Ubuntu. Since then I have successfully installed Slackware 12.2. As you probably guessed by now, I have a few questions about getting different devices to work and was hoping that someone might have been down this road already and could offer some direction.

How do I:
1. Enable and configure wireless – worked fine with Ubuntu
2. Enable and configure sound - worked fine with Ubuntu
3. Enable and configure Bluetooth - worked fine with Ubuntu

Mini 9 Configuration
• Original OS Ubuntu
• 2GB 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• 64GB Solid State Drive
• Intel Atom Processor (1.6GHz, 512KB L2 Cache, 533MHz FSB)
• Intel Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator 950
• Intel 945PM / GS Express Chipset
• 802.11g wi-fi mini-card
• Bluetooth Internal (2.0) mini-card

Thanks in advance for your time and help

dyoakum

farslayer

From HOw-to's for other distros on the mini 9

Wireless

The Broadcom BCM4312 in this laptop is not supported by the b43 kernel module yet. The only option is hand-installing the wl driver from Broadcom, or possibly using ndiswrapper.


Sound

The sound card is fully supported, with working mixers, volume hotkeys, etc, with one problem: No audible sound!

This can be fixed by putting the following in /etc/modporobe.d/sound, and then rmmod snd_hda_intel; modprobe snd_hda_intel:


Dunno bout the bluetooth

dyoakum

Thanks for the help

Hangdog42

I've got Slackware 12.2 running on my Mini 9, and farslayer's advice is dead on. As far as bluetooth goes, make sure that /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth is executable so it starts up at boot. I've also found kdebluetooth to be a very useful tool (and available from slackbuilds.org) although it won't run on a system with KDE4 installed.