Hi,

I just installed Slamd64 12.0 on my comp, the motherboard is P5B Deluxe wifi and I need help with sound/display/wifi etc, here's a link to the motherboard, the audio/wifi is integrated, video card is nVidia 6600GT.

http://www.asus.com/products.aspx?mo...3&l2=11&l3=307

Video Crad: nVidia 6600GT
Sound: Integrated Soundmax ADI® AD1988B
Wi/fi: Integrated Realtek RTL8187 adapter

I have no idea how to go about setting these things, so any help would be appreciated.

Installed Slackware 12.0 now, and also installed the wifi card using ndiswrapper, need help connecting to wireless network now. Read the post
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1/#post3053087

Guys I need help setting up the wifi so I can atleast get online to solve other issues....

A quick look around suggests that there may be a problem with 64 bit driver for the wifi card.

The gentoo guys have some info here, but don't mention 64 bit.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_rtl8187

I am afraid I don't know whether Slamd64 (or any 64bit distro) can run 32bit compatibility for a kernel driver.
You may be better off with a 32bit Slackware install (though you will have to get a newer kernel (>= 2.6.23))

Your other option is wait for 64bit support for this card, or buy an add-on card that is better supported.
Don't take my word for it though, I could be wrong.
Finally, bear in mind that this primarily a Slackware forum, you may do better to address your problem to Fred and the Slamd64 people, I believe they have their own support forum.

tobyl

It seems I will run into more issues with slamd64, so decided to install Slackware 12.0. Will get back to u guys when I have installed it, for help with that.

Ok guys, I have installed Slackware 12.0 on my system, used ndiswrapper 1.52 to install the wifi drivers and the installation was flawless for me. So far so good. But I do not know how to configure my wifi now, i need to connect to a wifi network in my area, the network is WEP protected. Let me know how to do this, here is what the main window in kwifimanager looks like

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/7...apshot1ku1.png

wlan0 is the name of the adapter, iwconfig and iwlist are unable to see the networks, (let me point out here that everything works fine under windows)

any help here guys??????

To setup ndiswrapper in Slackware, follow Alien Bob's tutorial:
http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...re:ndiswrapper
To enable WEP is easy. Just edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf, and under the wlan0 section, put in your essid and WEP key like this:
http://wiki.zenwalk.org/index.php?ti...xx_ndiswrapper
If you use DHCP you probably just need to put in your ESSID and WEP key, and change the WLAN_WPADRIVER to "ndiswrapper".

Here is a linux review of your motherboard:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item=621&num=1

But the problem is that there are no results for a iwlist scan, so how do I connect. (The ESSID is the SSID right?)

Yes the ESSID and the SSID are the same thing afaik. Where you able to successfully modprobe the driver? And when you run <ndiswrapper -l> in the terminal does it report the driver is present? If so, then running <ifconfig wlan0> should show the info for the wireless card, and <iwlist wlan0 scanning> should list the wifi networks it finds. For troubleshooting purposes, make sure your router is set to broadcast the ESSID and turn encryption off, just to see if you can connect without encryption. Then set the WEP key again and try to connect with the encryption on.
When I used ndiswrapper it sometimes had trouble finding my wireless access point. Sometimes it would find the router and connect on the first attempt, but other times iwlist would return no results, and I would have to try several times to get it connected.

- Yes, modprobe is sucessfull
- <ndiswrapper -l> says driver is present
- <ifconfig wlan0> indeed gives info on the card
- <iwlist wlan0 scan> does NOT list any networks, there are 2 wireless networks present in my area, but this shows none. The router is not upto me to configure, I'm in my college and wifi is provided by the institution. Works perfectly fine under winXP.

I don't know why you can't connect. Try this: first, modprobe ndiswrapper, then:
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan (see if you can find the network now) then, if successful:
iwconfig wlan0 essid your_essid
iwconfig wlan0 ap your_ap (this is the router's cell identity, as reported by the scan)
iwconfig wlan0 key (your_WEP_key)
dhcpcd wlan0 (to get ip address)
Sometimes, when ndiswrapper would have trouble finding my router, I would bring down, then bring up wlan0, and then it would find the router and connect to it.
I'm pretty much out of ideas. Do you know anyone else at your college who uses linux who connects to the wireless network? If so, perhaps you could ask them how they got connected.

Didn't work, should I try uninstalling and using some other version of ndiswrapper? If so, which?
(nobody else in my college uses linux, so a problem here)