Slackware 13.0 Wireless problem
 

Hello! I've a real issue here. I cant get any internet at all through slackware but it works perfectly when im using windows (its a school comp so windows was already installed). Our teacher said that i should be searching for radiolan but i've been searching all over google but i cant find anything about it. I've also been searching for anything that has to do with wireless.

Hello fremoq and wellcome to LQ,

will show you if any network-adapters are already recognized from the system. If not you may find out which network-adapter your machine has and if it is recognized by the system. will give you a list of available network-adapters on your system. If there is an adapter available you may use to find out if there are already the required modules loaded.

If you need further help, please post the output of this commands

Markus

Hi,

Welcome to LQ & Slackware!

First, you need to specify version & kernel in use. Then provide some system information as previously suggested. I would add that 'ifconfig -a' should be the command used to show all devices, even the ones that are down. 'man ifconfig' to get a understanding for the command & options.

Since this is the wireless that you wish too bring up I would use 'lspci -vv |grep -i wlan' & 'lspci -vv |grep -i eth' to get your devices. The 'lspci' is useful to find out information about devices that are connected to the system 'pci' buss.

If the device is shown in your 'ifconfig -a' and the proper drivers are loaded then it will be just a matter of configuration of the system 'conf' files. You can use the 'netconfig' or re-run the script from 'pkgtool'.

If your school is using a dhcp server then you can set the value for the device in '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf'. Be sure to place the 'GATEWAY=' address in that same file. You can restart the device or 'inet' with '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart'.

BTW, do a search on the Slackware forum as I know this subject has been covered in great detail many times.