Hi,
I just installed the 64-bit version of Slackware 13 tonight, and after install I don't have network capability. When I access the 'Network Settings', I get an error popping up about an XML file, and everything is greyed out as well as it showing no networking hardware installed. I've seen this both in KDE and XFCE environments.

Also, when I try and access the package manager, it says that the SMART package manager needs to be installed first. How do I go about either installing this or managing packages period?

Thanks in advance for any help.

/R,
- Justin

Slackware Package Management Guide

With regard to your network, provide the output of:
Have you configured the network properly during installation? If not you can run:
(as root).

Thanks for the link to the pkg management guide.

When I run ifcongig -a, it shows both an eth0 and a loopback installed, and there is an IP attached to the eth0, 192.168.0.89. When running netconfig, it asks me for the host name, and then a domain name, which it asked me on install as well. What does it want in regards to a domain name? Everything after that I tell it to configure via DHCP, just to get it up and running.

One thing I forgot to mention last night, when in XFCE, when I click on the 'network settings' tab (System Settings -> Network Settings -> Network Settings)for the first time, the system seems to hang on a box that has a title of 'Detecting your current platform'. If I force it to quit and then re-access the 'network settings' tab, it will then give me the XML error of 'Could not parse the XML file'. When I click ok, it pops up again, then after I click 'ok' on that one, it will just show the main box with nothing installed. All options are greyed out below the window that shows 'Interface', 'IP address', etc.

When in KDE, the XML error immediately pops up when I click on 'network settings' tab.


Here is the output if the ifconfig -a:

I think I've missed something. If you're using DHCP, and your eth0 has an IP address configured by DHCP (and therefore presumably valid nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf).. what is the problem? What can't you do?

AIUI the problem is in the KDE and Xfce interfaces to network settings. We do not yet know if networking works.

@Raven2k360: when you wrote "when in XFCE, when I click on the 'network settings' tab (System Settings -> Network Settings -> Network Settings)" it differs from the interface on my Slackware 13.0 32 bit Xfce system which does not have a "System Settings" item in the "Xfce Menu". I do not have KDE installed so your Xfce may be picking it up from your KDE configuration files.

That's possible, I went back and told it to use XFCE after I had messed around with KDE.

AFAIK, Networking does not work. When I try and open a browser, I can't pull up any pages. Man, they weren't kidding when they said slackware had a steep learning curve...lol.

Bump...

OK -- now we know that networking isn't, er ... networking, let's forget about the GUI networking tools (possibly only the KDE networking tool) not working and look at the underlying basics.

ifconfig -a shows a reasonable IP and netmask, configured via DHCP: 192.168.0.89 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.255.0.

How do you connect to the Internet (if you could!) -- via a router? What is your DHCP server? What are the contents of /etc/resolv.conf? What is the output of route -n?

Further analytical questions depend on the answers to those so I'll stop now.

You can read http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...ckware:network if you really want to know how Slackware's networking subsystem works.

Eric