[SOLVED] New Install, no Wifi

offgridguy · 12-18-2015, 02:41 PM

I had to reinstall my Slackware 14.0, Wireless had been working before, now though I can't seem to enable it from the GUI. Is there a way to do it from the command line?
I can get internet through wired ethernet at public library, but my home network is wireless aircard.

ardvark71 · 12-18-2015, 05:53 PM

Hi...

Did you confirm that the driver and firmware for your adapter is installed and working? If you would, please post the results from...

Code:

lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2

Code:

lsmod

Code:

ifconfig -a

Thanks!

like100ninjas · 12-18-2015, 10:14 PM

alien bob has some pretty good documentation on wpa_supplicant.

Quote:

http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...ckware:network

the part about wpa_supplicant is about 3/4 of the way down.

offgridguy · 12-25-2015, 07:54 AM

Sorry I didn't get back to this sooner, thank's for the links, I will give it a try.

onebuck · 12-25-2015, 04:38 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by offgridguy

I had to reinstall my Slackware 14.0, Wireless had been working before, now though I can't seem to enable it from the GUI. Is there a way to do it from the command line?
I can get internet through wired ethernet at public library, but my home network is wireless aircard.

Look at; Slackware Doc Project to hopefully helps solve a issue. The section http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:beginners_guide should help.

Hope this helps.
Have fun & enjoy!

offgridguy · 12-26-2015, 12:39 PM

Thank you for the links.

offgridguy · 12-27-2015, 12:45 PM

Success! Thank you all very much for the help, I appreciate it.

offgridguy · 09-10-2016, 10:06 AM

I wanted to add how this was solved. From the Slack Docs. section, Configure your new
Slackware system.
http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:beginners_guide

Quote:

Starting with Slackware 14, there is also Networkmanager. It will be installed as part of a full install, but the network daemon will not be started by default. As with wicd, you have to make its init script executable:

# chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager

which will make NetworkManager start at boot.