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I have tried to get my wireless network setup for 5 nights now, with the same results. Everything in my system automatically installs during the initial installation, except wireless, which I have run into in the past with older pc's. This install however (from 13.1 install dvd) seems to not cooperate properly with the rest of my computer. After installing wicd, I attempt to connect to the wireless network. Immediately after, wicd shows in the activity bar 'flushing dns' and syslog spews out two notifications at the lower right. That's it. From there it hangs and will not terminate cleanly. If I log out from there, I cannot get back into my x window system. Startx merely creates an Auth file and fails to load, saying that it's already active on 0. Then, if I run shutdown -r now, the system only goes as far as disconnecting remote drives and then hangs as well. I have to perform a hard boot at that point. The only thing that circumvents this, is to installpkg remove wicd. After wicd's removal, then I can shutdown -r now and reboot, reenter X and everything acts normal - until a wicd install. Any thoughts, suggestions, anything?
Please be aware, that I am not familiar with outputting data into a file like in the other posts I've seen here, so if you need the output, please include the commands necessary. Thanks so much in advance!
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It sounds like there is a problem with the wireless driver if it is causing instability. I assume this instability is not seen if the wireless device is removed?
Perhaps you could let us know what wireless device, kernel version and loaded modules you have:
lspci
uname -r
lsmod
You are correct, I dont have the issue when wicd has not been installed. I am reinstalling slackware 13.1 64 bit now so that all goes back to the original settings. Then I will gather the info requested. Btw, the three commands given I am semi-familiar with, but how do I get the output into a reply? Thanks again!
If you are reinstalling anyway you might want to consider trying the 32bit version unless you have specific requirements for 64bit. It's possible there is a problem with the firmware on just a 64bit install.
You'll have problems with things like adobe flash player under 64bit as well, for a desktop I personally don't think 64bit is worth it until more vendors give it full support which IMHO they should be doing already.
I think I'll start the download process for 32 bit, but I will also post the other info real quick too. I've also learned that now my ethernet port has transported it's last packet. So, for now, wireless is the only hope I have of internet connectivity in Slack.
Switching over, then will be back to post the requested ouput.
Quick update, I've installed Slack 13.1 32b and installed wicd as well. With no network connection, I opened the wicd interface and edited the properties of my selected network, added in my key and encryption type, then clicked connect - immediate out down in the lower right corner showing 3 messages from syslog. Wicd began the "flushing dns" process and then froze up. Upon logging out, prior to shutdown, I removepkg wicd because if I don't then I will not be able to reenter X. This still causes the system to hang on shutdown, so again it's the exact same between 64 bit and 32 bit slack. Hope this helps!
I'm not familiar with that particular chipset but you may want to try disabling the older driver rather than the newer one as suggested in the thread above as that user did have an rt2860 chipset where you appear to have an rt2800.
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Wireless setup in Slackware 13.1 64 bit
