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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Last edited by slackware1299; 04-10-2005 at 10:49 PM.
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
Last edited by slackware1299; 04-11-2005 at 04:51 PM.
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.
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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