Wireless

agallant · 10-10-2003, 12:56 AM

Has anyone got wireless to work in Slackware? If so how did you do it?

Thanks,
-AG

mrant · 10-10-2003, 01:00 AM

I've gotten it to work on occasion. Are you having a particular problem or are you just curious? Post a little more detail.

agallant · 10-10-2003, 01:13 AM

MrAnt
I have installed Redhat and have been using it for a few months now. It is very bloated. I want to give Slackware a try. The only way i have to access the net is via wireless. It works fine in red hat and i just want to know if anyone has got it to work in Slackware.
-AG

hurricane · 10-10-2003, 02:33 AM

i havnt been able to get mine going in slackware or red hat. I have a sparkLan WL-383F usb wireless lan inside my laptop. ive tried everything. i have switched back to ME on my laptop now *sigh* until i can get xp back. the wirless lan was the only thing stopping me from using linux as its the way i get on the network at UWE

mrant · 10-10-2003, 02:58 AM

Yes, I got my Cisco 350 card working. I had some issues with the firmware however. If you encounter problems, check the makers site for linux-compatible firmware and flash that onto the card. This may help you too hurricane. But I don't think I understand: do you have an external usb wireless adapter? If so, I don't know what you can do, I've never used one of those.
Hope this helps

sput · 10-10-2003, 04:41 AM

Yes, I have. I have a netgear ma401 wireless pcmcia network card for my laptop. All I had to do was plug it in and it worked right out of the box.

bare.i kernel

nistelrooy · 10-10-2003, 04:42 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by mrant
Yes, I got my Cisco 350 card working. I had some issues with the firmware however. If you encounter problems, check the makers site for linux-compatible firmware and flash that onto the card. This may help you too hurricane. But I don't think I understand: do you have an external usb wireless adapter? If so, I don't know what you can do, I've never used one of those.
Hope this helps

yea

firmware issue too

hurricane · 10-10-2003, 05:36 AM

ok bare in mind im a complete newbie to linux

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how do i get it working???

mrant · 10-10-2003, 06:24 AM

First thing you should try is just sticking it in. If you hear two high pitched beeps breath a sigh of releif and read up about iwconfig. If you hear a high pitched beep followed by a low pitched one, get ready for hell...
I exagerate. It can be really frustrating though. You'll probablly have to falsh the firmware to something Linux-compatible. But check dmesg first for the error. But just try it first and see what happens.

laurentbon · 10-10-2003, 08:16 AM

Elaborating on the subject, I have a pmcia card for the protocol 802.11g (and not b), a Netgear WG511.

Has anyone managed to connect to the wireless router with a card on that protocol? any feedback most welcome...

L

sput · 10-10-2003, 08:20 AM

I have not tried it, but assuming your router supports 802.11g, I don't see why it wouldn't work. What's the problem you're having?

agallant · 10-10-2003, 08:21 AM

Sorry MrAnt. I am not being very clear. it is a PCMCIA card going in to a Toshiba Satellite. The latpo has WIFI built in but i could not even get it to work in Windows. I am using a D-Link PC cars.

-AG

laurentbon · 10-10-2003, 08:21 AM

No problem yet, haven't tried. I read everywhere that it is not yet supported, that is all... Whick kernel do I need to look into?

sput · 10-10-2003, 08:27 AM

agallant, why dont you install slackware 9.1 - do the newbie install for everything and use the bare.i kernel. I would almost put money on it that it works for you by default.

hurricane · 10-10-2003, 08:31 AM

its not an external one. its an internal built in the laptop thingy lol. it has a big blue flashing light that should flash constantly when it works.