[SOLVED] Newbie needs advice to set network connection

porphyry5 · 03-16-2011, 06:25 PM

I connect wirelessly to a Lan, using a Linksys wifi card in my desktop.

Which of the 3 options for network connection should I choose, fixed ip address or DHCS? or loopconfig. None of them seem to relate to my situation.

Preferably, can this be done without having to redo the install?

I tried the first option, fixed ip address, because it specifies having a network card, but had no clue about the various addresses asked for so just took the default options. When I tried to connect Konqueror returned this error message

Quote:

The requested operation could not be completed
Unknown Host
Details of the Request:
URL: http://www.google.com
Protocol: http
Date and Time: Wednesday 16 March 2011 14:31
Additional Information: www.google.com

Thank you for your help.

repo · 03-16-2011, 07:21 PM

Which distribution are you using?
What do you use to connect, networkmanager, wicd....
It depends on how the router is configured.
If the router gives out IP's (set to DHCP) you should use DHCP.
If not, use fixed IP.
Bear in mind, if you use fixed IP, you need to use the same subnet as your router.
If the router has IP

Code:

192.168.0.1

you need to give the IP

Code:

192.168.0.x

to the computer, and use the ip from the router as default Gateway.
Also, don't forget to give the DNS servers.

Kind regards

porphyry5 · 03-17-2011, 03:30 AM

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Originally Posted by repo

Which distribution are you using?

I'm using 13.1

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

What do you use to connect, networkmanager, wicd....

I startx, Konqueror, and entered google.com as the address

Quote:

Originally Posted by repo

If the router gives out IP's (set to DHCP) you should use DHCP.
If not, use fixed IP.
Bear in mind, if you use fixed IP, you need to use the same subnet as your router.
If the router has IP

Code:

192.168.0.1

you need to give the IP

Code:

192.168.0.x

to the computer, and use the ip from the router as default Gateway.
Also, don't forget to give the DNS servers.

Kind regards

I tried above both ways, both produced the same error as before. I have to provide a password to connect to this LAN, and neither of these two options gives an opportunity to do so.
Also, I do not know how to obtain the requisite data from my linux machine, so I used the following which I got from the wifi card on my windows machine.

Code:

DNS server	192.168.0.1
IP Address		192.168.0.10
Subnet Mask		255.255.255.0
Default Gateway	192.168.0.1
DHCP Server	192.168.0.1
Primary WINS Server	0.0.0.0
Secondary WINS Server	0.0.0.0

So the IP address, 192.168.0.10, may be wrong (I assumed the x you quoted needed to be replaced by an actual number).

EDDY1 · 03-18-2011, 02:54 AM

You can also login to router to get wireless settings

slac-in-the-box · 03-18-2011, 12:00 PM

with slackware you can either configure your network manually, by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf or you can use wicd. The wicd slackware package can be found in the /extra directory of your local slackware mirror.

After it is installed, once you startx, you will see an icon in the panel of two displays close together... when you click on this, it scans wifi and tells you about available networks; once it finds your network, you can select the properties for that network before you connect to it, and there you will be able to enter the password to connect to an encrypted network, and to specify the type of encryption... Then you just close the properties window, and click connect. Once connected, the wicd icon in the panel also begins displaying the signal strength of the connection, and if you mouse over the icon, the status of the connection, including ip address is displayed. Wicd also has an advanced section where you can specify static ip address if not using dhcp.

good luck and have fun learning slackware

porphyry5 · 03-22-2011, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by slac-in-the-box

with slackware you can either configure your network manually, by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf or you can use wicd. The wicd slackware package can be found in the /extra directory of your local slackware mirror.

After it is installed, once you startx, you will see an icon in the panel of two displays close together... when you click on this, it scans wifi and tells you about available networks; once it finds your network, you can select the properties for that network before you connect to it, and there you will be able to enter the password to connect to an encrypted network, and to specify the type of encryption... Then you just close the properties window, and click connect. Once connected, the wicd icon in the panel also begins displaying the signal strength of the connection, and if you mouse over the icon, the status of the connection, including ip address is displayed. Wicd also has an advanced section where you can specify static ip address if not using dhcp.

good luck and have fun learning slackware

Thank you very much. I spent several hours over the last 3 days trying to edit rc.inet1.conf manually, without success, because I had no idea what to enter for various parameters. With wicd all I had to do was enter the password; what a difference!