General :: Slackware 13 - Madwifi Uninstalls After Shutdown
Jan 4, 2010
Basically what is happening is i installed slackware 13 and then madwifi following these instructions [URL] and it works great, then i shutdown or restart and when i come back to linux i dont have the internet anymore. This happened twice already and i dont know how to fix it. by the way i have 2 hard drives, one with windows xp and one with linux. i dont think this would affect anything but i put it just in case.
i will try to install it again from scratch following those instructions exactly because i just went to the configure and make part, i will take the post down if it works after that but if this is up then it didnt work. i know i didnt provide any info on things like the output of iwconfig or the model of my network card (atheros something) but all i can say right now is that i use the latest version of madwifi, 0.9.4, the fixed one that works for the latest models of atheros.
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Jul 26, 2010
I'm in the process of installing Slackware 13.1 on my old IBM A22m laptop.Since version 12, I've used WPA_supplicant and the Madwifi drive to set up my wireless connection (using a PCMCIA D-Link card). It has worked great all along, up through Slackware 13.However, I've noticed that Alien Bob's Madwifi instructions and repository do not have builds or packages for Madwifi beyond Slackware 12.2.
I think I simply built the drive in 13 by modifying the slackbuild for 12.2.Anyway, what's the latest/best way to set up wireless with an Atheros chipset? Are there Madwifi packages available for Slackware 13.1?
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Oct 7, 2010
On an OpenSuse 10.3 64-bit system I have installed an HP P2055dn printer. However, quite regularly the printer seems to have *vanished* from the system. It is still accessible through the network, but all settings have been lost when I turn on the system.
The printer has been set up using YaST with Direct TCP printing, using the Laserjet Series PCL6 driver. I've had the same setup on 3 different systems and each of them has had this problem occasionally, but this particular system has now had this same problem 3 or 4 times in two weeks.
Setting the printer up again is OC not much work, it's more a nuisance that I have to reconfigure it again and again and again.
why my printer settings are thrown out at random and what I can do to prevent it?
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Apr 12, 2011
I have installed the madwifi drivers and I am able to put the wireless device into monitor mode using airmon, so that tells me that the driver is working and the device can be picked up...
But I still can't connect using Wicd and I really don't know what to do next
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Jun 11, 2011
I have done 3 clean installs for this problem and it remains, i don't want to do it from the terminal..(Buttons exists but they won't work...)
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Mar 4, 2011
I am trying to install Madwifi 0.9.4 on my Centos5.5 and have absolutely no idea what to do, obviously its nothing like windows which is all I have ever used until just today when I installed Centos (so yes very new newbie). So my question is, how do I install it, what do I do? I have tried looking around on the net but most posts/tutorials assume some knowledge already.
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Mar 30, 2010
I'm trying to manually connect my wireless adapter to my router using WPA. I'm using Madwifi drivers for my D-Link DWL-G630. I keep getting the same error " Association request to the driver failed". I can connect to my router using wep through the GUI. I can not connect using the terminal. I created my /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file
ap_scan=1
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid="NYNET"
scan_ssid=0
[code]....
I run these two commands
sudo ifconfig wlan3 down
sudo dhclient -r wlan3
the I run
sudo wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan3 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd
jmorales@jmorales-laptop:~$ sudo ifconfig wlan3 up
jmorales@jmorales-laptop:~$ sudo dhclient -r wlan3
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.2
[code].....
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Jul 25, 2010
I am trying to install atheros AR5007EG on my toshiba laptop -i figured out that best way to install this wireless card is through madwifi -while configuring madwifi i get this error
I am posting the output of different commands so you can understand better -i manually tried to link the build directories to kernel-source which failed - i am not sure exactly what kernel source is and how i can link to kernel source -
My output:
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Apr 22, 2010
I cannot locate shutdown log for Linux shutdown to check various activities carried out during shutdown. I can view Startup Log which is availble on console>Applications>System Tools>System Logs.
I have included Shutdown/Startup in dbora, so that Oracle 10gR2 Shutdown/Startup will be automated during OS Shutdown/Startup.
I want to check Shutdown log because Oracle Shutdown was not running, as from $ORACLE_HOME/shutdown.log contains no entries, where as startup log contains latest startup details.
That means here 2 issues are there. One, I want to locate OS Shutdown Log and the other being Why Oracle Shutdown not getting executed.
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Apr 18, 2011
I've install Slackware 13.1 and i cannot shutdown my PC. The shut down process stop while trying to run PCMCIA module.
This is the first time that happens.
From Hardware point of view , i didn't do anything at all (if that helps).
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Jul 20, 2011
I just recently installed slackware 13.37 as a fresh install. In firefox, I currently only have the flashplayer plugin installed, no themes, no other add-ons. Firefox will open fine the first time, however after I close it and try to open it again, I get a message saying that firefox is already running and the process must be closed before another session can be opened. Looking through the open processes, firefox-bin still shows open. I can kill -9 firefox-bin and restart firefox, but then I have the same problem after close. I have deleted my .mozilla folder, which did not help and I have deleted the libflashplayer.
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Mar 7, 2010
Using slack 13 this started happening after my last 'upgrade-all' with slackpkg where I think it updated ssl and sea monkey. When I shutdown (fluxbox) it hangs at "starting up x11 manager" I have to ctrl alt del to get it moving again.
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Mar 18, 2011
OS = Slackware 13.1
I'm normally a KDE user but tried xfce4 and found that it works nicely. I wanted to switch to it for a while. I did find one particular problem: When you try and end the session, you can Log Out but can not Restart or Shutdown. If you click on Restart or Shutdown it asks for password Even after entering a valid password, it will not allow the action.
(I tried user and root's passwords.) It says "Please enter your password." After entering the password it says, "Either the password you entered is invalid, or the system administrator disallows shutting down this computer with your user account." (Before you ask; my user is in power group.)
I tinkered with it for a while and decided it must have something to do with KDM and so I switched my default runlevel to 3 and started xfce4 [via startx] and it worked as expected. Next I tried using xdm instead of kdm and YES, it works as expected. I was able to Restart or Shutdown (no asking for password, it just does it.) What is it about KDM that does not allow xfce4 to restart or shutdown?
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Mar 10, 2010
My home computer is (of course) a multi-user system with my wife and I each having separate non-root accounts. Usually at the end of the day I exit X, drop down to the terminal, su to root and type
Code:
shutdown -h now
to turn the computer off for the night.
However, my wife doesn't know (or care to know) the root password, but she would like to be able to shutdown the computer.I tried making a /etc/shutdown.allow file, and typing
Code:
/sbin/shutdown -a -h now from her account, but it didn't work. I got an error that one has to be root to do that.
So, how do I allow regular users to shutdown?
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May 4, 2011
Running 13.37. If I am in xfce, I have the option to shutdown or restart in addition to log off. In KDE I don't. how to get them to show up.
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Mar 25, 2011
I've got a minor problem with my GPU: I replaced the OEM GeForce 6200 with a 9600 GT, but I believe the shutdown temperature is still set to the 6200's; causing annoyance with graphically intensive programs/games. It was a fairly small card, and has a low shutdown temp. BIOS revealed no settings, is there a setting for this in slack?
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Nov 9, 2010
I just realized that my /tmp directory is not being cleared at shutdown time. How to enable this? I'm running -current.
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May 10, 2011
I'm using Slackware 13.1 on my laptop, and sometime ago it make some beeps on shutdown, and when I don't find any word on a page on Firefox(using the find tool on Firefox).
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Jun 5, 2010
What if I want to install Slackware for my parents so then I no longer have to get rid of virus and malware for them. Is there way so they never have to log on as root? Any way to access CD's and to shutdown computer? I only know how to do those things as root.
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Jul 14, 2011
I have been looking for a lightweight bandwidth monitoring app and came across bmon. It does what I need. However it has an interesting way of exiting.
when it is running and you close it down it ask you 'Really quit (y/n)' and does not shut down. I am used to just right clicking on my desktop and selecting 'leave' when it comes to shutdown time.
A few times now the laptop hangs on shutdown if bmon is open. I guess it is due to the app asking if it should shutdown. Is there a way to disable the app asking or alternatively nuke it for sure with some script on shutdown.
I could search the relevant konsole running the app and go thru the steps to shut it down but sometimes I am in a hurry and it doesn't feel like the way to go anyhow?
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Sep 15, 2010
Got tired of long waits for fsck on very large partitions.Here's a script to fsck selected partitions every 'N' shutdowns. No more boot delays for fsck (unless something is really wrong
Update1: On my system '/usr/libexec/gam_server' (gamin component used by xfce) prevented /home from being unmounted. I changed
Code:
[code]...
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Jun 15, 2010
12.2 is up to date and am running the Firefox from Slackbuilds. There was an update to FF a few months ago. Since then FF "hangs" when I close it out. It does seem to shut down better from the home page instead of whatever site I happen to be on at the time of shutting down. I do have a few addons to FF but they were there before the update with no issues. The addons are Gmarks [disabled], Rankchecker, Scribefire, SEO for FF [disabled], SEO Toolbar, Weatherbug and Web Developer. I haven't done any "fixes" so I'm fairly certain I didn't create my own problem.
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Jun 17, 2010
I upgraded to 13.1 and found the restart, shutdown buttons do not work. I have to resort to the terminal commands init 6, or poweroff. I then tried to install flash plugin. I modified the slackbuild script as per normal. Then issued the following command which seemed to succeed. But when I try to play utube movie it says flash is not installed. Do I need to rebuild the system?
Code:
root@redeemer:/tmp# installpkg flash-player-plugin-10.0_r45-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz
Verifying package flash-player-plugin-10.0_r45-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz.
Installing package flash-player-plugin-10.0_r45-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz:
Package Description:
# flash-player-plugin (flash plugin for web browsers)
# Provides Adobe Flash plugin for browsers that recognize
# /usr/lib(64)/mozilla/plugins as a valid plugin directory
# Plugin is subject to Adobe terms of use:
# [URL]
# Plugin is subject to Adobe Flash EULA:
# [URL]
# Package flash-player-plugin-10.0_r45-x86_64-1_SBo.tgz installed.
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Mar 4, 2011
Before i wiped windows (and the dual-booted slackware on it to make a slackware only hdd) i (sort of) backed up my files. I put something into my /etc/fstab that wiped /tmp/ when i shutdown/rebooted.
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Dec 19, 2010
It seems that I will get slackware working fine, just the way I want, and after I turned it off and turned it back on, Firefox and Pidgin refused to run because something was missing that was there before.
After uninstalling them both, and then realizing that the package was somehow uninstalled without me knowing, I reinstalled it in case anything else needed it. That was yesterday, and now today I woke up and started the computer, trying to use Konqueror. Strangely, there's no wireless internet, so I tried to use wicd and it just doesn't start. I try again from the terminal and I get this:
[Code]....
ImportError: /usr/lib/libdbus-glib-1.so.2: undefined symbol g_variant_new_double So I went and used slackpkg and it seems that libdbusmenu was uninstalled too. I really don't understand what's going on here. It's pretty annoying because without wicd I can't even use an ethernet connection, so the computer is basically useless to me at this point.
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Jun 4, 2011
I have a question regarding runlevels, shutdown procedure and KDM. I am on a freshly installed Slackware64 13.37 multilib system. The default runlevel in /etc/inittab is set to 3: multiuser w/o X.
Now, I log in as root and issue the command:
Code:
As expected, KDM starts up, and I log in to KDE (or another WM/DE) as a normal users. When I am finished, I either issues
Code:
In Konsole or click on Shutdown in the KDE menu. The shutdown process is initiated, as expected, but then it stops, and a window alerts me, that there is a session open by user 'root'. If I click OK, the machine is finally shut down.
Now, if I interpret this correctly, the behaviour of Slackware64 13.37 has changed here, compared to 13.1. In previous versions, the root seesion was closed, when I changed the runlevel to 4 with the telinit command. Now, the session remains open, obviously.
My question is: Is this the correct behaviour, and isn't this a security whole? An unnoticed (!) open root session while I am surfing the web as an unprivileged user in KDE could be dangerous, I think...
Is it misconfiguration in my system, or is this the way it should be?
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Apr 12, 2011
I'm using BackTrack 4-R2 and after trying for about 3 days now, I decided to do a fresh install and start from scratch. All of the "HowTo's I saw were for Ubuntu and didn't work.
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Dec 10, 2010
I have installed a cluster computer with 10 nodes . The manufacturer is HP . All nodes and the master node have redhat enterprise linux installed in them . When I shutdown the nodes from the master terminal using "shutdown -h now" they get shutdown . But they dont get completely turned off . This issue bothers me when the power supply is given , all nodes boot up simultaneously generating a huge heat .
Thing to note : When we shutdown our PC they get completely turned off . When the power supply is given , a press on the Power On button is required to boot the system. But , why does it not happpen in the case of cluster? Is there any other way of completely turning off the nodes from the master terminal ?
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Dec 28, 2010
I know this has been asked in a previous post:[URL]...BUT, i am not using the package assistance module that was used in this case. Im running Backtrack 4 R2, with a PCMCIA Netgear WPN511 card on a 16gig USB flash drive (dell inspiron 2200, 256MB pc333 RAM, 70 gig HD - i know this sounds minimal but it is running great, and will stay minimalist). The current kernel version is 2.6.35.8.
I am having problems with any version of madwifi i download/guide i follow. And, because madwifi.org is down (as usual), im having a hard time finding current sources. I am aware that there is the atheros 9000 driver, but am clueless as to install that as well, and from what i've read, madwifi suits my needs better. Once again, i am new, so if this is also incorrect, i'd love to know why! Im rather unfamiliar with how kernels/headers interact with drivers, so feel free to low-ball replies.
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May 18, 2011
I have thi errors when i try to install madwifi:
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