Need alot of wireless help

[Freston]

Excellent!

You can edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf to include your network details so that it includes this:

IFNAME[4]="eth1"
USE_DHCP[4]="yes"
WLAN_ESSID[4]=your_essid

After changing that file, you should restart your network interfaces with:

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 restart

[amplitude]

Alright so everything works I just have 2 more questions,

1. How do I get the network to work if its got a password?
2. Somehow I have managed to lose my taskbar, I don't know how to get it back lol.

I installed a style called SlicknesS-Black and it was working the first few times, now it still works ujst theres no taskbar anywhere in sight lol.

[Freston]

1. How do I get the network to work if its got a password?

You also put that in the config file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

Note that if you use an ASCII string as password (as opposed to hex) you have to prefix it with s:

WLAN_KEY[4]="s:password"

A much better and complete explanation you can read on Alien's wiki. Scroll down to about halfway of the page for the chapter Wireless configuration in rc.inet1.conf

2. Somehow I have managed to lose my taskbar, I don't know how to get it back lol.

That's in KDE4 right? I'm not using it, so I don't really know. Try right-clicking at different places until you see something in the menu called [add panel]. Then you add to the panel these things: K-menu, system tray, pager and something I believe is called task manager.




Another way is to login in textual modus, run

mv ~/.kde ~/kde.bak

And login again. KDE will build a new profile. Your old profile is now in ~/kde.bak. Restore your old profile can be done by running that command in reverse (also in textual mode):

mv ~/kde.bak ~/.kde

Or you can just delete it.