Ok, well I tried all of the suggestions given me, and probably did them wrong as I assumed from how long it took me to type it, it should be up and running by now. So to answer your question, nothing happened. I would get messages like, blank is a directory, so type it as a directory and blank does not exist. I now have a bunch of downloaded stuff lying around what was a nice clean file or two doing nothing. I would love to clean it all out but am afraid I will really screw something up and have to start over.
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Got a mess here. I think my downloads are going to different places. I also get errors that my files have the wrong ending. I download them as .gz but it wants tgz or something of that nature.
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root@scythempress:~# ls |
I will put some more effort in tomorrow, got early classes. I teach young police officers to survive the streets. Helps to stay awake in class. Thanks for the attention and patience.
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When you get back to this, please use the sbopkg program to deal with slackbuilds. The stuff that you downloaded aren't packages, they are containers of source code that you have to turn into a package (or containers of stuff that can be used to create packages). FWIW, I view myself as an engineer. I make stuff for people to use. It bugs me if my stuff can't be used. I have nothing to do with Slackware other than I use it. I like using it and I think that other people can enjoy using it as well. The only thing that I would ask of you for my help is a post in the thread that only says "Hey, it works!" and marking it as solved (only, of course, if that's what actually happened). I suspect that the others that have tried to help would only want the same. |
Wow, started following the menu, downloaded built and installed all three. Said successfully. It is still not working but looked like it did and that was cool. Tried reboot but that did not fix it. I no longer have any of the stuff I downloaded as it asked I allowed it to get rid of it once it was installed. Will work on it and see what I can do.
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I don't have one of those broadcom devices, so any help that I can provide from this point may or may not be worth reading. :-/ Hopefully, someone will step in and correct any misinformation that I may provide by mistake.
From what I've read, the wl driver may bring your wireless card up as eth1. Could you re-run the Code:
lspci -k | grep -iA3 net Code:
iwconfig |
It did, I now have Lo and eth1. Standby attempting to bring up slackbox
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ok I am having to type all this now because evidently bringing up the wireless did something to make it where the cable will not work now. So;
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lspci -k | grep -iA3 net |
If I remember correctly, you're running KDE. Is /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager executable?
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root@hp635:/etc/rc.d# ls -l rc.networkmanager We'll figure out what's going on with your ethernet connection afterwards. |
I suspect that the new driver messed up the mappings in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, which is how the system decides to assign the device names for network devices.
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Yes running KDE. Found NW in the hidden icons, it says NW not running please start it, but cant seem to make it work
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As root, you'll have to run /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager restart.
You can also run /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager status to see if it is running or not. Code:
root@hp635:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager status |
Ok got the KDE wallet that time, have not had that happen yet. WLAN is back up and wireless info displayed but did not hook up. Should wicd be discontinued now because i think both are started at boot
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Let me correct me. The wireless is up and running not the cable.
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