wifi question
john connolly
I have a slack13 box which is connected to the internet on one
side and a router on the other. The router is hardwired to one pc and I
have successfully tested the wifi properties on another. I just got a
laptop, repartitioned it and installed slack13, with no problem. The
windows7 system on the laptop finds the router ok but I haven't been able
to get slackware to do it.
iwscan finds the router ok but dhcpcd times out. /var/log/messages
doesn't have any DHCPACK entries when I try to connect using slack but
of course it does when the connection to windows is made.
Any help would be appreciated.
jwc
art clemons
> iwscan finds the router ok but dhcpcd times out. /var/log/messages
> doesn't have any DHCPACK entries when I try to connect using slack but
> of course it does when the connection to windows is made.
> Any help would be appreciated.
Why not install wicd from the /extra/wicd directory on the Slack DVD? It's
easy to use, usually reliable and you can even set it to easily use WPA2
unlike the issues some have trying to use wpa-supplicant directly.
Sometimes it's easier to switch to a tool like wicd. There are hints all
over the place on how to use it, but most folks don't seem to need them.
~kurt
> laptop, repartitioned it and installed slack13, with no problem. The
> windows7 system on the laptop finds the router ok but I haven't been able
> to get slackware to do it.
> iwscan finds the router ok but dhcpcd times out. /var/log/messages
> doesn't have any DHCPACK entries when I try to connect using slack but
> of course it does when the connection to windows is made.
> Any help would be appreciated.
I guess it would be helpful to know what exactly you have done to
configure the laptop? It doesn't take much to get "iwlist scan" to find
the access points, or even report that you are connected, while still
being from from correctly set up. All I have to do is "ifconfig wlan0
up" to make the scan pick up available networks. In theory, you should
generally only have to futz with /etc/rc.d/inet1.rc.conf and
/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf. Which reminds me, is the wireless router wide
open, or does it employ some form of encryption (WEP, WPA2)?
I have to admit, I found setting up wireless to be very confusing as
most of the forums and other articles out there suck when it comes to
configuring the system start to finish.
This had some useful info:
<http://p4c0.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/slackware-121-wi-fi/>
- Kurt
Glyn Millington
> iwscan finds the router ok but dhcpcd times out. /var/log/messages
> doesn't have any DHCPACK entries when I try to connect using slack but
> of course it does when the connection to windows is made.
> Any help would be appreciated.
Hi John, I had a similar situation here some time ago, with dhcpcd
time-outs. So I dropped using DHCP and gave the machine a static IP
address. That worked well.
A good reference point is Eric Hameleers' "Configuring your network in
Slackware" page here:-
http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:network
atb
Glyn
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john connolly
that did the trick. Thanks for your help.
jwc
~kurt
>
> A good reference point is Eric Hameleers' "Configuring your network in
> Slackware" page here:-
>
> http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:network
I take back what I said about there not being a good reference for wi-fi
- this is great in that it answers many of the confusing questions (the
apparent redundancy in config scripts) and pretty much shows one what
to do step by step.
I had previously run across
<http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php>
but for some reason didn't find (or just overlooked) the networking
section....
- Kurt