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now working on config wireless, and my goal to use slackware is to study linux and programming since I'm CS major... I'll need to set C/C++, java, haskell, and lisp environment in my slackware, any suggestions that might help? thanks a lot!
I am a bit unclear what the question is here. If the question is how to configure wireless networking, and you've installed X and are using the GUI, just install wicd from /extra and you can use wp_gui to connect to wireless networks with the default config files (as long as your user is a member of netdev).
I am a bit unclear what the question is here. If the question is how to configure wireless networking, and you've installed X and are using the GUI, just install wicd from /extra and you can use wp_gui to connect to wireless networks with the default config files (as long as your user is a member of netdev).
Never mind... I'm just trying to configure wireless from command line... it's much more fun...
If you had installed Mint, your wireless would probably have already been up and running.
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One important thing is to find out what kind of wireless chip you have. If you have Broadcom, for example, you may have to take a couple of extra steps to get it working. Run the command lspci in a terminal; it should report that information.
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Slackware newbie one....
