[SOLVED] Zenwalk 8 Fresh IInstall Need Help With Wifi

Ztcoracat · 12-10-2017, 10:12 PM

Hi:

I just installed Zenwalk 8 on my Sony Vaio and it runs great.

The problem I'm running into is I'm having a terrible time getting the wifi working.

I created a /etc/wpa_supplicant configuration file and rebooted and created a WiFi connection in Network Connections but that didn't help.

How do I get the wireless working?

Drakeo · 12-10-2017, 11:25 PM

install wicd and be happy.

Code:

http://manual.zenwalk.org/en/Setting_up_WiFi.html

Ztcoracat · 12-10-2017, 11:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drakeo

install wicd and be happy.

Code:

http://manual.zenwalk.org/en/Setting_up_WiFi.html

The wireless connection is working now:-

So...I upgraded netpkg--
Any clue why netpkg isn't launching?

Ztcoracat · 12-10-2017, 11:59 PM

After upgrading netpkg I'm getting this message:

Code:

pufilter.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

(got hanshake key 0xdb80080, needed 0xdboooe0

Drakeo · 12-11-2017, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ztcoracat

After upgrading netpkg I'm getting this message:

Code:

pufilter.c: loadable library and perl binaries are mismatched

(got hanshake key 0xdb80080, needed 0xdboooe0

seem zen has updated you should update.

Ztcoracat · 12-11-2017, 08:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drakeo

seem zen has updated you should update.

How do I update?

Ztcoracat · 12-11-2017, 10:41 PM

I tried xnetpkg and that's not working.

Running xnetpkg was in the Zenwalk Package Management documentation but it's not working.

Any ideas?

Ztcoracat · 12-13-2017, 12:40 AM

Evidently the error message that I posted in post #4 is related to a perl issue and the only way to solve it is to rebuild perl.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213408

I suspect that there are 2 different pkg's of perl and that's causing the mismatch OR> the perl script isn't working with the version of perl that is installed which would (I'm thinking) is why the netpkg gui isn't launching.

I won't be spending any more time on this and will just look for another distribution at this time.

Ztcoracat · 12-13-2017, 12:50 AM

Oh, btw all attemps to lauch or fix netpkg failed.

H1p8r10n · 04-21-2018, 03:51 AM

netpkg CLI is not dependent on perl (in fact : nearly not dependent on anything : it's a bash and pkgtool cli frontend) : so you can use it when xnetpkg (GUI version) is broken for some reason (perl problem for example).

JP