ok i am trying to get my wirless card working


but i am using slackware now and i am very new to it

well i got my wireless card drivers all working
and when i do a iwconfig it shows that card in there
link quality zero tho and the essid is something likd b11d and should be "link" i tried iwconfig eth0 essid link but it doesn't seem to change it

when i used mandrake it worked fine but now i am running into some trouble with slackware

mandrake also had something like network configure GUI where i can mandage and change the ip address of my network componets idk if slackware has something like this



would really like to get on the net soon with my linux box
stuck with M$ right now

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slackware 9.1 KDE 3.1.4
linksys wireless card v2.7

ok well i got it to change to link i am an idiot and my router was set to something else lol but i still cant get it working on the network

and also why doesn't the ifup eth0 command work in slackware
i have to do ifconfig eth0 up witch is fine but when i did ifup in mandrake is usually work right away and found the dhpc server at the same time

anyone???

so what exactly is the problem ? Can you ping your access point ? Can you get an IP using DHCP ? Can you ping to the internet ? (eg www.yahoo.com) Can you ping to an outside IP address ?

could you post the output of iwconfig ?
also ifconfig eth0?
also /sbin/route ?

Thanks

ifup/down is supposed to call "ifconfig up/down". if im not wrong ifup/down will "activate" the interface while the config for the n/w is done by ifconfig using those script files. i think u have to add some extra lines in ur script file for ifup/down to do what u saw in mdk (maybe look at the mdk n/w config script and copy it over to slack?)

first of all the
# ifup
comand not found

in slackware

# ifconfig eth0 up
does work
but doesn't assing any addresses or anythign

i would post the out put but i don't have anyway of doing that other then copying it all down and come downstairs and writing it all again

i tried just assigning and ip address
but i don't know how to put in the gateway

it doesn't say network unreachable when i ping my accesspoint
but it does say host unreachable

right, so can you ping localhost ? if you run ifconfig eth0 up what happens ? did you assign an address using if config or is you ap configured for dhcp ?

if you run ifconfig eth0 up and then run iwconfig does eth0 show up ? any signal/connection ?

if yes then run /sbin/dhclient... see if you can get a IP address from the AP... if you can't get to the ap you won't ever get out

check 'man route', you'll need to set your ap ip address as the default gateway, its really quite easy, something like 'route #ip of ap# default eth0' I think but you better check the man page.

ifconfig won't assign an address unless you tell it to, again check man if config.

will you use dhcp or manually assign a IP ?

i am trying use dhcp but here the thing that dhclient didn't really help
and it was using 255.255.255.255 not 255.255.255.0

anyways i don't mine if i can get it to work manually

i tried a little bit and did
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.55 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
ok so no i can ping my other computers
i can ping my access point and i can get into my router page

but i cant get on the net

anyhelp?

alrighty then, you got halfway there!!!! Almost done!

if you can ping your access point then you need to:

1) set the default gateway using:
#route ( I c an't remember what exactly to passs this command, check the man page or search the forums)

2) set dns servers in /etc/resolv.conf
if your ap is set to get the dns servers from the isp then set resolv.conf to the IP of the defaul gateway.

Once you do the first one you should be able to ping outside your network to IP addresses, once you do the second you should be able to ping domani names like www.yahoo.com and usea web browser.

whats the man page?

manual pages.
type:
$man #command name#

for all kinda info re that command. scroll thru with the space bar and enter key just like looking at a file with less.

sometimes the answer is right there on your box

i believe the option for gateway settings on ifconfig is "ifconfig <iface> gw <addr>"