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Old 04-10-2005, 05:38 PM   #1
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Configuring my mouse scroll button.


Hello everyone.

I installed slackware 10.1 today and everything went as planned. I have made a new user made the kdm login screen work setup the X windows server among other things. I however have 2 problems.

1) The scroll button on my Logitech PS/2 scroll mouse i believe (5 buttons- left, right, middle scroll (press down), scroll up, scroll down). I used xorgsetup to setup the X server so it did it for me automatically. I then went to the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf as root to change it for scroll mouse. It currently looks like this.

Section "InputDevice"

Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "Buttons" "5"
EndSection

However this does not work. When i installed slackware from the cd. I do believe that i put PS/2 mouse, as I did not know that it was supposed to be IMPS/2. When i first opened this file, instead of saying "IMPS/2" it said "auto". I dont know if I have to maybe change this setting in another file.

2) When I installed slackware 10.1 from the CD I chose to not configure my network then. It told me that this could be done at a later time. So now my internet does not work and I am not sure where to configure my network. I currently have AOL dsl(cable) setup at my house.


Thank you in advance.

~slackware1299
 
Old 04-10-2005, 05:47 PM   #2
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1) Use imps2
2) Netconfig
 
Old 04-10-2005, 05:47 PM   #3
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1) Try putting Buttons "5" above ZAxisMapping
2) You can use the netconfig utility or manually editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and then restart the network with /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart
 
Old 04-10-2005, 05:55 PM   #4
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i tried putting buttons 5 before ZAxisMapping but it made no difference
anything else?

i will use netconfig to get network up, this should let me use internet right?
EDIT: i went through netconfig, gave my network a name, chose localdomain, then DHCP server to configure Ethernet, however I didnt know my username for the DHCP, so i just pressed enter, and I was done. However I can still not use the internet. Am I supposed to be using netconfig to setup my internet? I have wireless internet (dsl, cable). I use wireless linksys router.

thanks for all responses.

Last edited by slackware1299; 04-10-2005 at 06:14 PM.
 
Old 04-10-2005, 06:31 PM   #5
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Option "Buttons" "7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "6 7"

Is your wireless card correctly identified?
Post the output of
/sbin/ifconfig
 
Old 04-10-2005, 06:42 PM   #6
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Wow, this is really weird. Last time I was on, I did alsaconfig to configure the sound. I wasnt sure how to lower it, so all I did was unclick on enable the sound, to turn it off, and I got some weird error about some programming(guessing some sound program) crashing. I then restarted the computer, loaded linux, and everythign seems to be like normal. It load the kernel, but when it gets to that part where it should load the KDM( i set it up as my login, I had done this earlier and restarted since then earlier so it did work) but it freezes at the statement: Starting up X11 session manager.
Why is this?

I cant do anything like startx or login. I just have to to do ctrl-alt-del to restart teh computer.

EDIT: When LILO loaded, instead of just clicking on Linux, I did,
Linux init 3
which loaded kernel and took me to login in bash instead of KDM,
i then logged in and did startx which gave me a fatal error, so i redid xorgsetup
and went in startx and everything I had done. The small configurations I had made were gone such as the lines I had added to the xorg.conf for the mouse as well as the changing the init to 4 and to KDM. Everything I ahd done seemed to be gone. I just redid it all again. What may have caused this? I had just run netconfig and changed the name so it now said root@[new name] instead of the old root@darkstar
could this have caused it? The sound still doesnt work, dont know what happened to it.

Also, why would i want to create 7 buttons?, i dont have that many on my mouse.

Last edited by slackware1299; 04-10-2005 at 09:28 PM.
 
Old 04-10-2005, 09:48 PM   #7
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here is what ifconfig gives me if this helps

ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
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 )

doesnt look like I have an eth0 device, so either its not configured right, or its not supported, what do I do now?

Last edited by slackware1299; 04-10-2005 at 09:49 PM.
 
Old 04-10-2005, 10:19 PM   #8
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Try these...

Code:
ifconfig eth0 up
Code:
route add default gw <address> eth0
Also, edit your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf with the appropriate settings.

Last edited by Linux~Powered; 04-10-2005 at 10:22 PM.
 
Old 04-10-2005, 10:28 PM   #9
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Quote:
Originally posted by Linux~Powered

Code:
route add default gw <address> eth0
what do i put for <address>

also I am using a linksys wireless B adapter, 2.4 GHz, 802.11 b, model No: WUSB54G Ver. 4
which I am not sure is supported by linux

someone told me to try : ndiswrapper
does this work?
 
Old 04-10-2005, 10:31 PM   #10
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The gw is the gateway, the address of your router. Something like 192.168.0.1, just an example.
 
Old 04-10-2005, 10:34 PM   #11
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ok,
i will try that, but I dont think that my adapter is supported, someone told me that this wireless adapter most likely istn, do you happen to know this?

linksys wireless B adapter, 2.4 GHz, 802.11 b, model No: WUSB54G Ver. 4

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Old 04-11-2005, 06:02 AM   #12
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Question about using ndiswrapper

do i have to install it on windows?
i just downloaded it fromt he sourceforge website
I can't downlload it on Linux since I am unable to use the internet. What do I do now after having downloaded it, do I somehow have to get it from the C hard drive in windows? and then install it on linux??
Thanks

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Old 04-11-2005, 04:52 PM   #13
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anyone know, i would really like to get my internet functioning so that i dont have to keep switching between linux and windows

thanks
 
Old 04-11-2005, 11:32 PM   #14
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i had the same problem as you did, since i had to configure mi network connection from a wireless card on a laptop.

here's the deal. download ndiswrapper with windows. save it on a dir. whatever.

run linux and get that file, untar it. and well, basically run your ./configure and /make., i don't remember too well, the guys at ndiswrapper have a great wiki.

once installed, run
Code:
ndiswrapper -i inifile.ini
in which inifile means the inifile for the windows xp drivers to use. remember to run ndiswrapper under the directory you have the inifile, i recommend you mount the cd rom drive, if thats where the drivers are, or create a directory in windows, so you can do it from there without much hassle.

after you installe the driver go

Code:
modprobe ndiswrapper
and
Code:
ndiswrapper -l
that should give you the output that status of the drivers and hardware

after that, have some fun with
Code:
iwconfig
you should see something like wlan0, or something.

you need 3 things after this basically
Code:
iwconfig essid Network-name
if you got encryption going
Code:
iwconfig key restricted password
and if you are probably running dhcp
Code:
dhcpcd wlan0
i hope this helps... still, read the wiki! the guys at ndiswrapper are real humanitarians... that piece of software is just great.
 
Old 04-12-2005, 06:28 PM   #15
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Quote:
Originally posted by salviadud

Code:
iwconfig essid Network-name
if you got encryption going
Code:
iwconfig key restricted password
thanks man thats exactly what i needed,
about those two codes

say my network name is test123 would i do : iwconfig essid Network-test123 or
iwconfig essid test123

and for the second code, waht pw are you talking about?, I know we have an encryption key for the router if that may be what you are talking about...
so would code be like

iwconfig key restricted [encryption key for router]

thanks for you help, that should help a lot, I already downloaded ndiswrapper, and the winxp driver for my adapter
 
  


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