Ok, so I have installed slackware several times on the same machine. Every time I have a problem getting my mouse to work, this time I cant remember what I did last time to make it work.

I am installing it on a laptop. And the touchpad works fine, but the mouse doesnt. If I change xorg.conf protocol to "IMPS/2" the mouse still doesnt work and the touchpad goes to the bottom left of the screen and starts randomly clicking.

I did the whole ZAxisMapping "4 5" thing and the Buttons "5" but i cant figure that out.

Second question:

I have never had to configure anything to get my computer to connect to the internet wirelessly, however now the network i am connecting to has WEP security, and i was wondering how i set up the key and everything to work

it may take some trial and error. try changing the protocol, or the Z-axis or number of buttons to more correctly describe your mouse. for myself i had to change those plus, most importantly, the device.. which turned out to be, i found, /dev/input/mice

I have a Wireless Logitec mouse, it has a bunch of buttons and a scroll wheel. its the one i have always used. i will try changeing the input device. see if that fixes it

I suppose the wireless device is wlan0.

The way to configure the wep key is:

iwconfig wlan0 key s:abcdefghijk12

where "abcdefghijk12" is the key as a 13 character string, that's why is preceded with s: . You can write directly the hex code, in that case its longer and you don't have to use "s:" .

The way I set up the wireless connection in my Slackware is writing this commands in /etc/rc.d/rc.local :

ifconfig wlan0 192.168.230.41
ifconfig wlan0 up
sleep 3
iwconfig wlan0 key s:abcdefghijk12
iwconfig wlan0 rate 1M
iwconfig wlan0 essid macaconet channel 11
route add default gw 192.168.230.2 wlan0

where "macaconet" is the essid of your network. You choose the right channel (11 in these case) and the transfer rate (I use 1M) I think you can leave it untouched. Note the "sleep 3", it doesn't work for me without that.

So i got the mouse to work however i still cant get the stupid wireless working.

The WEP key is only 10 charictors (in hex) that i need to enter. and when i use the above code i then type "./rc.local start"

i think that is what im supposed to do... then i get the message


key: :host name lookup failure