My wife's Redmond box died, so I bought her a retail box. The old box was repairable, so I confiscated it for my second Slackware workstation :->

It took me just about an hour and a half (I'm not completely proficient yet, but getting better) from partitioned drive to booted with wifi, never connected to the internet by hard wire, using Patrick's 2.6.10 generic kernel.

The last time I installed, I used kuser to create my user accounts. This time I just used adduser.

I've experienced something just a bit strange that I thought you might recognize.

Logged in as "root", kwifi comes up and presents the connection characteristics.

Logged in as "me", kwifi shows no connection at all, even though the wireless connection is active, and I can connect to e'mail and the internet.

I've checked my rights, and matched "me" with "root", thinking there might be some additional rights required. This did not help.

Can anyone offer some advice?

Kind regards,

desertViking

Usually, the network setup tools are root-only, but it is a little strange in this context, where the indicator should be available for all. I remember the time I spent setting up sudo to let the users run Wi-fi Radar...

Agreed. It is a bit perplexing.

I don't really think this is a Slackware issue, either. I've posted a question to the KDE forum to see if someone there might have an idea.

One of those things that makes a person say, "Hmm." I'd like to learn the root cause.

Thx for your kind reply.

This is hardly worth posting, but I did figure out what was going on. For those who considered my problem, this is what I learned:

The system tray was turned off. When I wanted to check the wireless status, I was starting kwifi from the KDE menu button. It would show no connection information, then I'd close it.

It was closing to the system tray. For a different reason, I turned the tray back on and there were about 10 instances of kwifi, all showing signal strengh.

Closed all but one, and it's good.

Thx for any thought you gave to my question, and sorry the solution wasn't more enlightening

desertViking