Hey everyone,

So I decided that I would swap over to Slackware on my HP dv2000 notebook as Linux mint wasn't encouraging me to use the command line too much and I decided to get thrown in the deep end with the scripting side of things.

Basically I can't work out how to install WCID off the Slackware DVD, I have gotten as far as extracting it (extracted to /home/ but I am unsure how to execute it, I have read the install docs and can't make much sense of it, could someone possibly help out and pass on the code to install.

Thanks

You don't extract it. Find the package and just do "installpkg filename" as root.

Edit: I've reported your other post for closure, since I already replied to this one.

Thanks mate, seems to have worked just rebooting to find out. Thanks for reporting the other post too

Do you mean WICD?

Go to the extra directory on the DVD, and as root do
Kind regards

Ok so that worked but I have no wireless drivers i cannot find them on my Slackware DVD in the extras folder I have downloaded the driver tar (ipw3945-1.2.0.tgz and also the network subsystem ieee80211-1.2.18.tgz, is this all I need? Not to sure about how to go installing them though tried...

tar xzvf ieee80211.1.2.18.tgz
cd /ieee80211-1.2.18
make
(after this i get this error
"root@sam:/home/ieee80211-1.2.18# make
Checking in /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-smp for ieee80211 components...
egrep: /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-smp/build//include/linux/autoconf.h: No such file or directory
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.33.4-smp/build M=/home/ieee80211-1.2.18 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33.4'
CC [M] /home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.o
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c: In function 'alloc_ieee80211':
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c:148: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'hard_start_xmit'
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c:149: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'change_mtu'
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c:153: error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'get_stats'
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c: In function 'ieee80211_init':
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c:268: error: 'proc_net' undeclared (first use in this function)
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c:268: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c:268: error: for each function it appears in.)
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c: In function 'ieee80211_exit':
/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.c:297: error: 'proc_net' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [/home/ieee80211-1.2.18/ieee80211_module.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/ieee80211-1.2.18] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.33.4'
make: *** [modules] Error 2
"

I was just following the install instructions in the tar but I'm not sure if I'm doing it right maybe there is an easier could somebody shed some light on the situation

Thanks

Ok, so i just checked ilwifi

"ls /var/log/packages | grep iwlwifi"

It seems all the required drivers are installed so maybe something else must be the problem, the wireless light on my laptop is still red and WICD is showing no connections

Is the module for the device loaded? Can you do "lsmod | grep ipw" to check? Also do a "dmesg | grep ipw" to see if there were any errors on loading the module.