Fresh Slackware install, some issues, help needed.
 

OK guys, here's the thing.
I've just installed Slackware 10.2 onto my desktop computer.
Erelier I have used VectorLinux, and I don't want to stress about compiling my own kernel, so I decided to install Slackware because I need to get my WiFi card work. Besides, I want to learn a distro where I'm in total control of the system.

This is my weird issues:
1.[Fixed] Shutdown:
When I pull a "shutdown -h now", the OS is killed, but my computer is still alive if you see what I mean. All the umounting of devices and so on are made in the console,but when its finished, it stands "Power off", and then I have to use the powerswitch on my computer to kill my box. When I used VectorLinux, my computer was shut down properly when I used "shudown -s now". Any idea of how I can make my computer _shutdown_?
Solution: "modprobe apm"
Thanks to rkrishna & Nylex:)

2. WiFi Driver
I have a D-Link PCI card which is supperted by the madwifi driver, so I installed it, using this HowTo:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/FirstTimeHowTo

These are the steps I have done so far:
Installed the driver(make, make install)
Loaded the module(modprobe ath_pci)
Created an interface (wlanconfig ath0 create wlandev wifi0 wlanmode sta)
Brought up the interface(ifconfig ath0 up)
Scanned for networks(wlanconfig ath0 list scan)
Connected to a open network(iwconfig ath0 essid "netname")

At this point, when I open Kwifimanager, it tells me how strong the signal is, transferspeed and so on, so I recon the card works.

But when I do a "dhclient ath0" I get this error:
"ath0: not found"
When I when i pull a "dhclient" it tries to get an IP adress for the eth0 interface, but when I pull a dhclient eth0, I get the same error as with "dhclient ath0":
"eth0: not found"

Any ideas?

3.[Fixed] Optical mouse.
My Dell optical USB mouse don't work in slackware, but it did in Vector. And the X.org conf is the same. Any Ideas?
Solution: run mouseconfig and choose USB and restart X.
Thanks to DragonM15:)


In advance, tanks.
Love, Jorek.

P.S Sorrt for bad english...

Ok, as far as not completely shutting down, your kernel most likely doesn't support the powermanagement for your computer... I have not done anything for wireless, but I do intend to soon, lemme know how it goes? As far as the optical mouse.... by default slackware will use ps2... most optical mice are usb, I am assuming yours is? try using mouseconfig and switching to usb. Hope this helps a little bit

DragonM15

2/3
 

for powerdown problem
edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

there is one line with apm something like
(i dont remember i am using one winblows machine outside)
#/sbin/modprobe apm --->
/sbin/modprobe apm
uncomment the line ie remove #
so that first time u shutdown it wont work, but the next time after u restart and shutdown it will work then only the kernel wil take the module.(dont try reboot ;))


go to this thread it includes what all u needed basically
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=174447

wifi driver no idea :(

regards
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Edit: try xorgsetup,(read much more) it wil configure much X automatically, if not.

Yes, that's what I was going to suggest. Jorek could do a "modprobe apm" (as root, of course) first and then try to shutdown and see if it works. If it does, then uncomment the line in rc.modules.

Thanks guys.
Got 2 out of 3 problems fixed:)
Only need to get that WiFi driver working now...

bareacpi.i
 

Hi out there

You can also use the bareacpi.i kernel from the install disc in order to make use of ACPI (most new PCs have ACPI).

Good luck!

Well it's a shot in the dark, but we should start the WiFi problem by asking you to give us a lsmod and lspci and 'cat dmesg' output. After that we will have something to work with...

OK, here's my outputs:

Hi

My guess is that the card is ok but just not set up for dhcp.

Take a look in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and see shich cards are set up for dhcp.

OK, thanks so far guys:)
I looked in the rc.inet1.conf, and made this: Look like this:
Then when I ran dhclient ath0 I got this output:
My wireless network uses netmask 255.255.255.0 (Or whatever the standar is),
so I changed the inet1.conf to:
But I still get this output from dhclient ath0:
How to make dhclient listen on netmask 255.255.255.0 insted of 255.255.255.255? I'm almost there, just the final leap, so please help me:) Thanks, Jorek

The wireless adapter seems to be connecting to your computer fine and is broadcasting a DHCPDISCOVER packet on all broadcast subnets. Therefore it cannot fine your wireless router. Do you have your essid setup correctly?

Also are you using WAP encryption?

Just to make sure you have your wireless card configured correctly, run iwconfig. And give us the output.

And after that run (iwlist ath0 scan) to see what all networks your card sees. If you see the line that reads this means you are going to have to give iwconfig the key via Afterwards you should be able to run dhcpcd ath0 and you should get an IP address unless you ran iwlist ath0 scan and you didn't see your network. In which case your WNIC isn't seeing your router for some reason.

The network is not ecrypted...

Anyone?
I hate to bump, but I would like to fix the card as soon as possible, because I'm going to a LANParty with my friends this christmas holiday..
In advance thanks.
Love, Jorek.