Hi,

I'm new here with Slackware [Slackware-14.1/64]

I tried to set up my usb wifi for Network-Manager and the Gnome applet in XFCE but failed.

I followed the instructions in Slackware Getting Started or some such title (the printed doc in front of me does not say the title and I'm on another system) and the doc called SlackBuild Usage HOWTO. Having already started NetworkManager by making it executable and rebooting I next ran the command

network-manager-applet.SlackBuild

which ended up with an error regardless of whether I had su'd in just like that or using 'su -l' as the doc also suggests.

libtool: compile: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -pthread -I/usr/include/dbus-1.0 -I/usr/lib64/dbus-1.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/NetworkManager -I/usr/include/libnm-glib -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng14 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/gnome-keyring-1 -DUIDIR=\"\" -DDATADIR=\"/usr/share\" -I../../src/gconf-helpers -I../../src -Wall -Werror -std=gnu89 -O2 -fPIC -Wshadow -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-prototypes -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wfloat-equal -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-sign-compare -fno-strict-aliasing -MT libutils_la-utils.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/libutils_la-utils.Tpo -c utils.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libutils_la-utils.o
utils.c:31:27: fatal error: nm-gsm-device.h: No such file or directory
#include <nm-gsm-device.h>
^
compilation terminated.
make[4]: *** [libutils_la-utils.lo] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/network-manager-applet-0.8.6.0/src/utils'
make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/network-manager-applet-0.8.6.0/src/utils'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/network-manager-applet-0.8.6.0/src'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/SBo/network-manager-applet-0.8.6.0'
make: *** [all] Error 2
root@darkstar:/0/sa14/comp-gen/build-slak/network-manager-applet#


What did I miss?

TIA

Hi:

Do you mean that the way you connect to the internet is via a usb dongel or mod switch?

If so: is it a Belkin, Netgear, Lynksys or other? (what make & model)

-:- You might need to install a driver for your usb wifi dongel-:-

It seems that someone is missing driver nm-gsm-device.h

Maybe I don't understand something, but Slackware-14.1 already has network-manager-applet package, no need to build it. badsector, did you do full install? If yes, then you should have network-manager-applet installed on your system. If no, it can be found at slackware64/xap on Slackware DVD.

I had a bloody hard time with this but it's working now, posting this from 14.1 on a laptop I just got back and on which I had to reinstall so I did a full-install. I'll work on the desktop later.

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager

is about ALL that I could do from what's written in the beginners' guide and it seemed to have no effect on anything. Couldn't find anything called 'network-manager-applet' anywhere, including @ the slackbuild link.

After about three or four reboots it suddenly came together on its own, got an annunciation to the effect that a WiFi point was available, then I just had to work the NM applet dialog now visible in the panel to get the password in.

Thanks everyone.

Your Welcome-

I had to re-install Slackware 14.1 as well a second time. For some reason after the first install I wasn't able to get the wifi working. After the second installation my wifi worked fine.
Till this day I still have no idea what the issue was--

Odd how it worked it's self out after a few reboots:-

Glad it's working for you now-

If you still don't have the network manager applet a fresh installation is an option.

Enjoy your Slackware and have a good weekend.

No doubt I will, had started out with it before making the mistake of 'moving up' to Suse which had just forked from Slackware. Suse the steamed on to spoil me rotten, I would know a lot more today had I stuck it out!

I do have the applet, recognized it instantly as soon as it appeared, having remembered it from days when Knetworkmanager was still useless :-)