I screwed up with Slackware install!

Imprive · 10-04-2010, 03:32 PM

Hey I finished installing slackware, but during the installation I didnt set up the network stuff cause my laptop was only using wifi, and I didnt think slack had a driver for my card. Sooo I get into slackware and I cant connect ot the internet and there in network settings it says zeroconf wasn't built. So how do I remedy this? Is zeroconf part of my problem?
oops I forgot some info:
Slackware 13.1 64-bit edition
EDIT: Ok so I ran netconfig, and it worked, but I still cant see my Ethernet and WiFi cards.
Also, how do I get KDE to run every time I run slackware.

onebuck · 10-04-2010, 04:23 PM

Hi,

Welcome to LQ!

Configuring your network in Slackware is Alien_Bob's excellent article on the way network cards are configured in Slackware. Loads of internal reference links. Supports Ethernet & Wireless.

onebuck · 10-04-2010, 04:27 PM

Hi,

You edited the post as I responded.

You can use 'startx'. Be sure to create a new account with 'adduser'. Add that user to the following groups after you add to 'users' group by using the up-arrow to get the suggested groups;

Quote:

users floppy audio video cdrom plugdev power netdev

Please note that this line can be edited via the keyboards keys.

Imprive · 10-04-2010, 10:50 PM

what is that number that starts out with PCI? How do I find my PCI number?

Code:

# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
 
# PCI device 0x8086:0x101e (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0d:60:b1:b9:43", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth0"
 
# PCI device 0x168c:0x1014 (ath_pci)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:05:4e:47:7c:28", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="ath0"

czarherr · 10-05-2010, 07:14 AM

By wanting KDE to run every time you run slackware, do you mean you want it to start up automatically? If so, just edit /etc/inittab. There will be a line there reading

id:3:initdefault

Change 3 to 4, and it'll go straight to a login screen in X when you boot up.

onebuck · 10-05-2010, 07:43 AM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imprive

what is that number that starts out with PCI? How do I find my PCI number?

Code:

# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.
 
# PCI device 0x8086:0x101e (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0d:60:b1:b9:43", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="eth0"
 
# PCI device 0x168c:0x1014 (ath_pci)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:05:4e:47:7c:28", ATTR{type}=="1", NAME="ath0"

'pci.id' is what your asking about. This is a assigned ID. pci.ids file is a list of PCI ID's to be placed in '/usr/share/pci.ids'. You should update your distribution id's periodically if you change pci devices with newer ones or the distributions 'pc.ids' are dated. If you have 'pciutils' installed then use 'update-pciids' script.

You can use the 'lspci' command with the -v or -D option to identify if the pci.ids file is up to date. 'man lspci ' will get you information for the command.

Just a few useful links;

Slackware® Essentials
Slackware® Basics
Linux Documentation Project
Rute Tutorial & Exposition
Linux Command Guide
Bash Reference Manual
Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
Linux Newbie Admin Guide
LinuxSelfHelp
Getting Started with Linux

The above links and others can be found at 'Slackware-Links' . More than just Slackware® links!

Imprive · 10-05-2010, 11:50 AM

so, to use my ethernet and wifi cards I need to just add the card information to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf?

onebuck · 10-05-2010, 03:29 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imprive

so, to use my ethernet and wifi cards I need to just add the card information to /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf?

Yes. If you do use 'wicd' then be sure to revert the '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf' file to the original state.

Imprive · 10-05-2010, 05:41 PM

EDIT: nevermind

Imprive · 10-05-2010, 07:00 PM

ok, so I tried a bunch of stuff, I looked at the links you guys gave me and I still can't figure out how to get slackware to detect my wifi card. it is a broadcom 4321AG. I heard you can use modprobe to enable kernels for the card but I dont know which kernel I need to use.

linus72 · 10-05-2010, 07:09 PM

check it out
http://linux2.gmartin.org:82/tiki/ti...d=2&postId=140

http://beginlinux.com/appsm/wireless...re-13-wireless

http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43

hope that helps?

Imprive · 10-05-2010, 08:48 PM

nope i tried to use the stuff broadcom has on their site but it doesnt work, what i downloaded seems to be missing the tar file but I cant find it and since I cant connect to the internet I can't download new packages. Furthermore my slackware installation seems to be messsed up. Everytime I open something new I get this program trying to start up called A-something migration, but it can't start up. Also whenever I open network settings I get an XML error, and that happens with a few other things as well.
Is there a way to repair my installation?
and by the way what is the slackware gui package manager?

onebuck · 10-05-2010, 09:20 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imprive

ok, so I tried a bunch of stuff, I looked at the links you guys gave me and I still can't figure out how to get slackware to detect my wifi card. it is a broadcom 4321AG. I heard you can use modprobe to enable kernels for the card but I dont know which kernel I need to use.

You probably need to get the firmware for the broadcom chipset. You can get it from Slackbuilds. You will be using b43-fwcutter & b43-firmware. Plus be sure to read the information at Slackbuilds.

Do a Search here on LQ as I know this subject has been covered many, many, many times.

I do suggest that you look at;

ANNOUNCE.13_1 ,
CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT
RELEASE_NOTES
UPGRADE.TXT
Slackware-HOWTO

The above links have a lot of information, you also have these available on the install media. It is recommended that you don't use the installer kernels but the generic kernel (read the docs). Get in the habit of reading docs when you want to work with Slackware.

Imprive · 10-06-2010, 01:52 PM

ok i installed b43-fwcutter and the firmware, but nothing works. THere are still no adapters in the network settings, and I still get that XML parsing error when I run the network Settings program.
Ok, there was one forum thread that got the XML parsing error as well but they just needed to setup DHCP, which I already did.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ttings-753040/

I followed THESE instructions and it still doesn't work! I can connect through a wired connection but not wireless. It doesnt even appear in iwconfig
http://www.hydronitrogen.com/409/bro...-on-slackware/

onebuck · 10-06-2010, 04:47 PM

Hi,

Quote:

Originally Posted by Imprive

ok i installed b43-fwcutter and the firmware, but nothing works. THere are still no adapters in the network settings, and I still get that XML parsing error when I run the network Settings program.
Ok, there was one forum thread that got the XML parsing error as well but they just needed to setup DHCP, which I already did.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ttings-753040/

I followed THESE instructions and it still doesn't work! I can connect through a wired connection but not wireless. It doesnt even appear in iwconfig
http://www.hydronitrogen.com/409/bro...-on-slackware/

Post the output for '-ifconfig -a' now that the driver & firmware is in place. What does 'lspci -vv' & 'lsmod' show for the wireless/Ethernet.
Also post your '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf'.

In a previous post to you I presented "Configuring your network in Slackware is Alien_Bob's excellent article on the way network cards are configured in Slackware. Loads of internal reference links. Supports Ethernet & Wireless.". Much better guide to get things working properly once you have the firmware & driver issue resolved.