I`m going to be a slacker :D
 

Hi all slackware users!. I have come to the decisions that Slackware will be my new and only us .. but I have some questions.

How to connect two wifi? I'll have a clean Xfce setup.

How to get to lilo to boot faster?

I guess what I wonder now and start with ..

To boot LILO faster remove comment mark in /etc/lilo.conf before compact option and then run lilo command.

Congratulations on your decision to move to Slackware. :)
I've had good luck using wicd in /extra to connect to wifi.

It seems linman321 asked rather the question “How to connect two wifi?” instead of “How to connect to wifi?”.

Damn....you're right. My bad. So linman321 you want to connect two wireless routers, APs?

Welcome. :-)

You could install `wicd' by using `slackpkg install wicd'. You have to select a mirror first in /etc/slackpkg/mirrors

Add the word `compact' in /etc/lilo.conf and install the new lilo by usining `lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf'

That should be -c (lowercase)

And it's not needed if you use the 'compact' option in lilo.conf

Hello:

You will find really great help at: http://genek.net/LinuxAdventures/sysadmin/index.html

In particular, the Slackware part of 'Adventures in System Admin' and 'Adventures with Applications'

For wireless, Wicd is the way to go.

I checked this in the man-page:

Another tweak is to change the timeout option in /etc/lilo.conf to a value like `timeout = 50'.

Thanks :) im writing from Slackware, so i can say that im a slacker to :P

Yes, and your point is? -c means compact, -C means use a different config file to /etc/lilo.conf. Your original point seemed to me like you meant to use campact not a different config.

Congratulations! :) I am happy for you!

How to install stuff? is it slackpkg install package?

How to get an loginmanager?

You can install/upgrade from the official repo using slackpkg.
You can build packages using slackbuild scripts from www.slackbuilds.org and then use the regular package tools installpkg/upgradepkg/removepkg.
You can use sbopkg www.sbopkg.org to automate slackbuild scripts.

Read 'man slackpkg' and 'man sbopkg' for more info, but yes it is usually

slackpkg install <package>
slackpkg upgrade <package>

For a login manager you should have kdm installed by default. If (once X is working properly) you use the 'init 4' command it will start kdm. 'init 4' changes the 'runlevel'. To make it permanent you need to edit /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel to 4 like this:

# Default runlevel. (Do not set to 0 or 6)
id:4:initdefault:

No matter what I try to install in get: No packages match the pattern for installation. i have tryed slackpkg update but no change

I do not have kde installed so I need another loginmanager. slim shuld be fine.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/13.1/system/slim/

http://slackbuilds.org/howto/

Thanksbut is it realy that hard to install stuff in slackware?

Easier than most GUIs.

Give it a month of playing with packages, even installing from most sourcecode is easy. (Although, I have had issues with >12.0 as of late myself.)

Try sbopkg: www.sbopkg.org

Okey? :p cos i dont understand nothing hehe.. can somone ginve me an exemple how to install something?

WELCOME to Slackness! Ahhhhhmmmm.... Ahhhhhmmmmm.....

You have a couple options for installing applications on your Slackware system.

1) use the Slackpkg package manager application from the command line. For info on Slackpkg:

2) you can build applications from SlackBuild scripts available at SlackBuilds.org or use the sbopkg app available there.

Of course, as with any distribution of Linux, you can build from source, also.

Have fun with it. :)

~Eric