Configuring Wireless
I'm trying to configure my wireless on a fresh install of Slackware 13.0. I struggled with this forever about a year ago with no luck and decided to give it a break but now I'm back at it. So basically this is where I am at. My system information is below, then the output of iwconfig, then the area of rc.inet1.conf that i changed (I don't think I did it right).
-------------------------------------------------------------- CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53 1.70 GHz RAM: 2 GB System Type: 32 Bit Laptop Model: DV6000 Series Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150 Hard Drive: 150 GB -------------------------------------------------------------- after running iwconfig Code:
root@darkstar:~# iwconfig This would be the portion of the rc.inet1.conf file i changed. Code:
Contents of Changes in rc.inet1.conf |
Why not change rc.inet1.conf back to the defaults, and use wicd?
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okay..i could just comment everything out again in inet1. lol whats wicd and how do i use it?
your reply makes me feel like this fix should be simple so I'm hopeful about that. lol last time i was working with ubuntu and it was insane trying to get linux to work with my broadcom chip. |
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You can use wpa_gui to do the changes, ans scan for networks |
honestly, i don't know what the difference between wext and ndiswrapper is.
so i created a folder in root called Extract and ran the following from a console. Code:
install /media/SlackDVD/extra/wicd/wicd-1.6.2.1-i486-1.txz /root/Extract/ Code:
wicd-1.6.2.1-i486-1.txz |
I do need a key so I'm going to need to uncomment those lines and put in my key, security type, and all that right?
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installpkg wicd-1.6.2.1-i486-1.txz |
No where in your information did you mention the wireless card type you have in there. My DV6000 had a broadcom wireless card which requires driver setup and a kernel compile to get working. Neither are hard, but you are wasting your time if you haven't gotten the hardware working. Instructions for all of that can be found with a forum search.
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okay yeah thats what i need to do probably. i do have a broadcom card so I'm going to see if i can search the forum for what i need to do and post back here if i have problems. :)
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R Tanner, with a Broadcom card, you basically have three driver options:
1. There exists a SlackBuild (called broadcom-sta) that includes the proprietary driver that comes directly from Broadcom. 2. You can use ndiswrapper and the driver files from Windows. 3. You can use b43-fwcutter (also a SlackBuild) and the drivers built into the kernel. Not all of these will work on all cards, however. |
tar xjf and broadcom driver
So I put the b43-fwcutter in the /lib/firmware folder after running tar xjf and make. Now I have downloaded the broadcom driver and I'm trying to run tar xjf on it (as you can see below) and its throwing all the errors you see below. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
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root@darkstar:/media/disk# tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2 |
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so I'm trying to run this sudo command for the driver but i can't figure it out for the life of me (I've been playing with it for the last 3 hours or so). Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
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root@darkstar:~# cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0 |
It looks like /lib/firmware/b43-fwcutter doesn't exist. And your output doesn't include any commands that would verify that. Have you checked?
Also, just a couple friendly tips.. if you're logged in as root, you don't need to use sudo. And you can avoid typing "../.." by using an absolute path. ie, "/lib/firmware/b43-fwcutter". Hope that helps! |
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