Slackware installed: XML, file system and internet errors...
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If you didn't see my post above, the fact that no network interfaces appear in the KDE thing is a KDE bug. You do have a wireless device, wlan0, that you should be able to configure. Can you run "iwlist wlan0 scan" and see if it picks up your wireless network? About your wired connection - I'm not sure why the adapter doesn't show up in lspci, but can you just run "ifconfig -a" and see if there's an eth0 device?
If you didn't see my post above, the fact that no network interfaces appear in the KDE thing is a KDE bug. You do have a wireless device, wlan0, that you should be able to configure. Can you run "iwlist wlan0 scan" and see if it picks up your wireless network? About your wired connection - I'm not sure why the adapter doesn't show up in lspci, but can you just run "ifconfig -a" and see if there's an eth0 device?
Sorry for missing that post; I didn't see it. Apologies.
I'll boot back into Slackware. One minutes, guys, and Thank You Very Much.
bash-3.1# ifconfig -a
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:56:12:1b:2e
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-25-56-12-1B-2E-6C-6F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Looks like the Wireless is up. Very Nice.
How Do I connect to a hidden network with WPA2 encrption using the Command Line? I tried man ifconfig and man iwlist, but didn't see anything.
What is this?...
Quote:
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet
Thanks, Nylex, you will see your Thanked Tally significantly increase
It's just telling you that you have a wireless interface called wlan0.
Ok, now you want to connect to your WPA2 network. Do you have wpa_supplicant installed? You might also want to check if you have wicd installed. wicd will make things nice and easy for you. To check whether these are installed, just do, e.g.
ls /var/log/packages | grep wpa_suppicant
for wpa_supplicant and replace "wpa_supplicant" with "wicd" for wicd. For your information, /var/log/packages just has files containing the description of each installed package.
If you have both of those installed, good. Check that /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd is executable: ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd (I assume you know about permissions? If not, just ask). If it is, start the service with /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd and an icon should appear in the tray for wicd. You should then be able to use that to configure your network.
Also, you have created a regular user account for yourself, right (i.e. not the root account)?
Edit: unfortunately, I have no idea what to do about your Ethernet adapter . If you need it, yeah, you might want to use the Ubuntu live CD to check which driver it's using. Perhaps said driver is not part of the stock kernel, but I can't say for sure.
It's just telling you that you have a wireless interface called wlan0.
Ok, now you want to connect to your WPA2 network. Do you have wpa_supplicant installed? You might also want to check if you have wicd installed. wicd will make things nice and easy for you. To check whether these are installed, just do, e.g.
ls /var/log/packages | grep wpa_suppicant
for wpa_supplicant and replace "wpa_supplicant" with "wicd" for wicd. For your information, /var/log/packages just has files containing the description of each installed package.
If you have both of those installed, good. Check that /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd is executable: ls -l /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd (I assume you know about permissions? If not, just ask). If it is, start the service with /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd and an icon should appear in the tray for wicd. You should then be able to use that to configure your network.
Also, you have created a regular user account for yourself, right (i.e. not the root account)?
I did a default, recommended install from the DVD, so I don't know if I have this packages installed; I will check.
As for permissions; my only experience with those in the CLI is chmod -x "" (EDIT: I think those are permissions...anyway) when I was installing wine and winetricks from source. So I guess I'll ask.
I don't have a regular user account for myself, I did look that one up on Google when I was prepping for installing Slack, I think I have to do "adduser"?
Thanks
Last edited by lupusarcanus; 12-23-2009 at 04:12 AM.
As for permissions; my only experience with those in the CLI is chmod -x "" (EDIT: I think those are permissions...anyway) when I was installing wine and winetricks from source. So I guess I'll ask.
I don't have a regular user account for myself, I did look that one up on Google when I was prepping for installing Slack, I think I have to do "adduser"?
Yes. Make a regular user account to use for every day use and only use the root account when you need to (like performing system tasks). In case you don't know how to "become" root, you can use "su".
Edit: you probably have the package installed, but check just to make sure.
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