Wicd can't see any wirless networks rt5370 Slackware 14
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Wicd can't see any wirless networks rt5370 Slackware 14
I've installed Slackware 14 on an old machine and bought a wireless usb dongle, a RaLink RT5370 for the network interface. I've installed WICD 1.7.2.4, and rt5370-2.5.0.3 from SlackBuilds. However, when I run wicd-curses it says No wireless networks found.
Your hardware is detected, but the rt5370 driver you built from Slackbuilds may not be loaded. Run lsmod to see all the modules loaded. If there is no rt5370 module, try loading it manually with modprobe.
I fear that you have reached the limit of my expertise here. I have never done wifi via a usb connection. My laptop has a built-iin pci device. All I can tell you is that the modules I required to be loaded in order to make the wifi work were the following:
Quote:
rtl8192ce
rtlwifi
mac80211
cfg80211
I have also uninstalled wicd since Slackware 14 has Network Manager which I now use and which appears to be very reliable compared with wicd under Slackware 13.37. Your use of wicd-curses suggests that you want to use a network management tool with a CLI mode - I don't know if Network Manager has such a tool or not.
Thanks, I seem to have fixed the wireless driver part of my problem. Still can't get wicd-curses to see networks. Now I just need to figure out how to use nmcli.
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