I am trying to get the WiFi working under Slackware64 14.1 and iwconfig returns the following:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:"TRENDnet652"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption keyff
Power Managementff

However the key keyword generated a warning and encryption is not set. Can someone help me to get this problem resolved? Thanks.

The WiFi is known to work with the same router (TRENDnet652 ) and same computer under Windows 8.1.

Are you using wicd, networkmanager, or none of the above?

I guess none of the above. I was trying to set up rc.wireless to initial wlan0 in the same way as eth0.

The use of rc.wireless is now deprecated. For the full chapter and verse on what you are trying to do, I suggest this

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Here is my quick and dirty WiFi guide for the setup I think you are going for:

https://github.com/ryanpcmcquen/linu...icantSetup.txt

Still I would recommend wicd or networkmanager (wicd even has a great curses interface, and networkmanager probably will in the next Slackware release).

Just for the record, NetworkManager is part of the standard Slackware install since 14.0

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I didn't find either wicd or networkmanager. Maybe a PATH thing, I'll look into it. These are accessible from console interface?

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This looks promising, looking into it, thanks.

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I'm trying to set up the WiFi first with iwconfig, then once it's working I can move the proper entries to rc.net1. I'm a bit confused about the index e.g., [4] and why it never seems to be [0] or [1]

To clarify the situation, I have a cable modem feeding internet to a router at home. I have my desktop in another room connected via WiFi.

wicd is in slackware/extra while networkmanager is in by default (as NetworkManager, nm*)

wicd i know has a curses interface, idk about NM
NM has a gtk interface called nm-applet


that said, if you have a stable connection you don't need either of those
WEP is easy to set up, and goes something like this
WPA requires making a /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and starting the supplicant, that i never did

and that's the basics of what rc.inet1 comes down to

PS iwconfig has a successor called iw that i find does the same thing by using more words
iwconfig should work for the foreseeable future

NetworkManager has 'nmcli' as a curses interface. The problem with nmcli is that it cannot use the secrets required for wireless with WPA2. The nm-applet interface is required for that.
wicd has the much nicer curses interface 'wicd-client', but cannot be used with USB modems.

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i should read better

WEP or WPA ?
key is a string or hex ?
string key needs "s:" as a prefix (man iwconfig)

Back in the days that I was doing wireless connections, I tried wicd (this was before 14.0 when NetworkManager was included). Unless I just couldn't figure it out, it would never connect to the wireless soon enough to mount my network share drives during startup (this was a media center pc that relied on those network drives). I ended up switching to just having rc.inet1 manage my connection. It may be a bit difficult the first time, but once you get the handle of it, it is relatively easy (although, certainly not on par with GUI interfaces with NetworkManager or wicd). Also, if this is a laptop and has the potential to connect to new networks frequently, it may be beneficial to go with the GUI options, since it is much quicker to add a network that way. That being said, if I remember correctly, this is what you would need to do to connect to a WPA network using just rc.inet1 and wpa_supplicant (I assume you aren't using WEP, because you really shouldn't be).

But the slackbook wiki has fairly detailed information on getting rc.inet1.conf and wpa_supplicant set up. Make sure you read the section about WPA2 to get your wpa_supplicant set up properly.

I am baffled by this because I do not find NetworkManager. Using KDE I can go into system setup and find a number of config paged but they don't seem to address the parameters I'm trying to get at. There is a tray icon which says Network Management and when I click it, it says "NetworkManager is not running. Please start it." But I am not finding it.

You would need to make /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager executable and run it before you can use the applet in KDE. If you don't have that file, then you didn't install NetworkManager (which is part of a full installation). To make it executable and start the service, as root, run:

Or you can just run netconfig and follow the prompts to get it set up.

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If you have edited /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and then want to use NetworkManager, it is recommended that you revert to a clean /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...9/#post5236776

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