can't enable network interface

[super_nub]

I'm very new to operating in linux. I've d/l and installed slackware 12.1 and not sure where to go. I've been up and down the forums here and the help file on slackware isn't so helpful. thought I had it figured out only to come up with something else.

ie: Could nnot parse the XML output from the network configuration backend.

What to do?
Any help at all would be appreciated.

Tim

After looking. I found a couple things that might help out.


eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:e8:4f:17
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8c00

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0b:db:1f:83:06
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x6800

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1032 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1032 (1.0 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:f8:38:0a:c9
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-18-F8-38-0A-C9-6C-6F-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

[Freston]

Hi and welcome to the forums!

You realize that Slackware is a very powerful, reliable,fast and flexible operating system, but amongst it's merits it doesn't count easy graphical configuration tools. It has a steep learning curve.

That's not to say you shouldn't use it. I wouldn't even call Slackware particularly difficult, rather maybe it's an acquired taste

Anyway, enough of that. Your interfaces? Try:

ifconfig eth0 up
dhcpcd eth0     # if you use DHCP

For your wireless:

ifconfig wlan0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid YOUR_ESSID
dhcpcd wlan0

Where YOUR_ESSID if the name of your wireless network.

Obviously all these things can be automated, but first see if they work manually

[super_nub]

well... at least now it doesn't give me the XML statement, but still doesn't come up online.

ifconfig wlan0 up gives me
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

I've tried with a static IP and with DHCP. No luck.
Tim

[Freston]

Oh. Not good.

What kind of wireless card do you have?
You can probably find it with:

/sbin/lspci|grep -i wireless

And if that doesn't work

/sbin/lspci

[super_nub]

Its the linksys WPC54G wirless card. I just got off 24 hour shift I'll give that a shot when I wake up. thanks for helping out.
Tim

[super_nub]

03:00.0 Network Congroller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

not sure if this is important, it says My platfor isn't supported and asks which one i want to use. Ark, Black panther conectiva, debian, fedora, freebsd, gentoo, mandriva, PLD slackware redhat suse, kubuntu vine or yoper.

[super_nub]

Showed a connection on eth 0 when i used fawnty so i selected that and X'd don't ask again, now it shows none of the network connectors. guess i should have waited to find out what to do next, OOPS...

[Freston]

Showed a connection on eth 0 when i used fawnty so i selected that and X'd don't ask again, now it shows none of the network connectors. guess i should have waited to find out what to do next, OOPS...

Yeah you should have

You'll probably will want to try ndiswrapper for your wireless card to get the Redmond driver to work.

Try this: Alien's Slackware ndiswrapper howto. And feel free to ask questions if you run into any trouble Good luck!

[super_nub]

thats strange, I still dont have an internet connection... I've no reason to work on the wireless card. Its there more so i dont lose it. the screen is broke on the laptop so it doesn't move. lol.