can recognize wireless card but cant connect to internet...

[snappyjack]

Hey, I'm new to slackware but not *so* new to Linux (using it as main OS fo a year or so). Anyway, I've booted up slack and feel like connecting to my wireless, so I ran kwifimanager to scan for networks. Mine came up, I entered the WEP, and I got little green bars and happy messages galore. However, when I try opening up a browser (firefox, konqueror, even links)I fail to connect. Right now I have a Dell Inspirion 6000, which has a Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG card. Iwconfig shows that the computer has recognized my card, and even that it has sucessfully connected. What's going on here?

Thanks for any help.

[bigtomrodney]

What do you have in /etc/resolv.conf? Can you ping from the terminal

ping linuxforums.org
dig linuxforums.org

[snappyjack]

I can't ping anything, and all that's in resolv.conf is search (username).

[Freston]

And if you try to connect manually?

See the device:

ifconfig

See the available networks:

iwlist scan

If all seems well, try to get an IP

dhcpcd $interface        # Where $interface is something like wlan0 or eth1

Are ESSID and WEP set correctly?
Can you ping your router/modem? (probably 192.168.0.254 or 192.168.1.254 or something similar)

[snappyjack]

Thanks Freston! I think the solve was dhcpcd. My only question is, will I have to do this every time I log in? Because I think I'll make a script if that's the case.

[bidi]

Have you editted /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf? You'll need to edit the first one to include any interfaces that aren't eth* and the second for wireless. If your only problem was dhcpcd you'll need to edit only the rc.inet1.conf. You'll need to set it to use dhcp, I can't remember what the variable is called but should be pretty obvious... set it to "yes".

[Freston]

Thanks Freston! I think the solve was dhcpcd. My only question is, will I have to do this every time I log in? Because I think I'll make a script if that's the case.

I never really made an effort to automating wireless during boot. But it is certainly possible. You might want to look into your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet* scripts, 'cuz that's where it happens

If you go for the manual approach, I don't think you'll need something elaborate as a script, you could just as well define an alias. And you can also put relatively complex commands in your KMenu, things like:

command1 options other_stuff && command2 more_options || alt.command

And specify to run them as other user (root in this case). You'll be missing any output unless you also specify to run in terminal. But it's an ideal solution for relatively long and/or complex commands that you need to issue with any regularity.

[vonbiber]

I suggest first that you find out your wireless interface by
looking at the contents of /proc/net/wireless:

cat /proc/net/wireless

with my card (intel wireless 5100) and slackware my interface is wlan0

so let's assume that's your interface too

the next step would to bring that interface by typing in

ifconfig wlan0

then you check the available networks:

iwlist wlan0 scanning | less

(I use free hot spots at public libraries so I usually check the one
that seem likely to be the local hotspot)

when you have made your selection, get the info from the
line
ESSID:"...."

connect your card to that essid (that's the string between the
double quotes):

iwconfig wlan0 essid "the_essid_you_read_above"

next (and final) step:

dhcpcd -t 30 wlan0

now, hopefully you should be connected
by the way, you need to be root to do this