Slackware :: What's Latest With Madwifi?
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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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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Jan 10, 2011
Is there a script which will take the patches subdirectory of the latest Slackware distribution tree, and substitute the new patch txz files for the ones in the slackware subdirectory so that during an ISO install, the latest txz will be used, instead, and the ISO will be minimized by not having the older ones?
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May 15, 2010
after update to tle latest -current using slackpkg my slackware not boot. After hit enter after bootprompt the pc restart.
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Mar 8, 2010
I'm getting exception 13 when trying to use the latest qemu-kvm-0.12.3 on slackware 12.2 w/ stock 2.6.27.7 kernel:
Code:
exception 13 (6b)
rax 0000000000000010 rbx 0000000000008c00 rcx 0000000000006ebe rdx 00000000000c8c00
rsi 00000000f2010000 rdi 00000000000c0000 rsp 0000000000006eb4 rbp 00000000f2010000
[code]....
Google says this has something to do with Intel hardware and the way it handles real mode. run it with -no-kvm, but that's not much of a fix really.. so in the mean time I reverted to using qemu-kvm-devel-88 which works well, but is pretty old.
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Sep 22, 2010
Just installed the latest kernel upgrades, rebooted, fired up KDE and got this message: "KDE detected that one or more internal sound devices were removed. Do you want KDE to permanently forget about these devices? The list of the devices KDE thinks can be removed: Capture: HDA Intel (AD198x Analog) Output: HDA Intel (AD198x Analog) Output: HDA Intel (AD198x Digital)"
It then asked, "yes, cancel, manage devices." When I clicked on "manage" it showed Esound as the only device, but it didn't work. So, was something was left out when the packages were compiled?
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Nov 16, 2010
Have similar issues with Slackware, since the latest Xorg updates I cant run KDE anymore. I am using VBox 3.2.10, so thats not the issue, i suppose.
Here is the error from kdm.log:
Code:
Backtrace:
Fatal server error:
Also when the system is booting I get a warning like this:
Code:
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Feb 2, 2011
After applying the 31st Jan and 1st Feb updates to -current (32 bit), alt-tab to switch between windows is no longer working in kde. It seems to lock the desktop and then after a few seconds kde goes back to the login screen. If I disable all desktop effects then alt-tab works again.
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Sep 6, 2010
What a difference, using fglrx, this is like a new computer with this latest update. It runs a bit colder, flashplayer video actually goes all the way to the edge in fullscreen mode and no hardlocks yet (the kind with a blinking capslock light). Maybe fglrx isn't the only bad app in the village after all.
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Jul 17, 2011
After installing Slackware 13.37 I've noticed that while when in the Xwindows environment inside the mozilla firefox I can surf freely I cannot use wget with the same freedom.
I get the following error with wget:
Code:
wget [URL]
--2011-07-17 10:54:58--[URL]
Resolving dropbox.com (dropbox.com)... 199.47.216.179, 199.47.217.179
Connecting to dropbox.com (dropbox.com)|199.47.216.179|:443... connected.
ERROR: cannot verify dropbox.com's certificate, issued by "/C=US/ST=Arizona/L=Scottsdale/O=GoDaddy.com, Inc./OU=[URL]": Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority. To connect to dropbox.com insecurely, use '--no-check-certificate'.
How do I update the machine to use the latest root ca's I have downloaded and manually installed ca-certificates_20110502.tar.gz but it still refuse to work with wget. How can I install the root ca so it will accept ssl when using wget?
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Jul 3, 2010
I read somewhere that the compositor of XFCE make a nice effect. But when I activated it became significantly slower. I have a core i7 and a Ati 5730, with the latest Ati drivers.
I need to do something in xorg.conf or another configuration?
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Mar 4, 2010
I'm running a clean install of the latest version of -current64.When I try to run a number of SlackBuilds from SBo, the scripts stop (no error) after the make install step.If I manually run all of the commands after make install, I get a fully functional package, and the program works with no problems.In looking as the logs, I don't see any errors during the configure, make, or make install steps.
I'm having problems with other scripts as well that are not XFCE related, but these are good examples. Another oddity is that the SlackBuild script for thunar-archive-plugin at slacky.eu works.I've never had any problems with these scripts before, and many other scripts still run just fine. I can't track down a common problem here.
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May 19, 2010
I've found that my skype stopped working with recent -current updates ( around beta ... ). It was looking for a libuuid.so.1 library - on checking I found the 64-bit version but no 32-bit version - quite strange as this has been working fine since my original slackware64 13.0 installation. Anyhow, I got the 32-bit util-linux package, did the 32-bit package convert thing and skype is now working:
1. convertpkg-compat32 -i util-linux-ng-2.17.2-i486-1.txz
2. un-archive
3. copy the libuuid lib to /lib and soft-link in /usr/lib
I didn't install the whole compat package as this is not really necessary I think.
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Mar 7, 2010
after looking at this thread [URL]... i found out that my printer is no longer working with the latest CUPS package (in -Current). I tried to delete the printer and re-adding it again with the same driver, but it failed with an error message: Bad device-uri "cnij_usb:/dev/usb/lp0"! I have tried to use the driver provided by Canon or by the automatic detection by CUPS, but it ended with the same results
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Apr 21, 2011
I'm running Slackware current. After the recent glibc change, ImageMagick display is exhibiting bad behaviour. I open an image with display, left-click on it to get the menus, move the mouse down so I can click on Transform, but before I get there, it crashes and displays this message code...
Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix for it?
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May 22, 2010
Running 12.2 on fluxbox, it seems the latest pidgin update has messed with my dock icon- it's no longer the pidgin icon, now I believe it's a generic one. It's not REALLY a big deal, but it kind of bugs me...
Where is this set/how do I go about fixing it?
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Feb 10, 2010
I installed latest 64bit updates from current and it broke direct rendering for my radeon 9550 card using X11 drivers.Xorg.0.log:
Code:
(II) [drm] DRM open master succeeded.
(II) RADEON(0): [drm] Using the DRM lock SAREA also for drawables.
[code]....
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Oct 5, 2010
I'm on the Slackware Security mailing list and I check the Slackware Security Advisory page daily because the mailing list, for me at least, is unreliable. After Firefox nagged me about a security update, I went to one of the FTP mirrors to check for an update and the Firefox update was there, but it still hasn't shown up on the official Slackware Security update page.
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Apr 10, 2010
klipper doesn't always store the latest clipboard contents in its history in kde 4.3.5. I have "ignore selection" and "separate clipboard and selection" set in Klippers settings. When i open a new program, for example - kwrite, type some text in it, select some of it and hit ctrl+c - copied text doesn't show up in klippers history list. It seems that klipper misses the first copy operation done in newly launched applications, only by copying the same (or some other) text again klippers menu entry shows up. This seems to happen with only newly launched application, when i had kwrite window already open, opening a second window and performing copy worked fine with klipper.
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Mar 1, 2010
libgmp If you found slackpkg failed for this upgrade because of libgmp not found you will need to grab the gmp package and install manually. This way ought to work:
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Dec 25, 2010
I just wanted to make sure the latest mdadm hasn't escaped the attention of the Slackware gurus for -current. I bet it hasn't I'm basically in the same situation as described here:[URL]...
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May 22, 2010
I need a small distro... that i can fit into a 1.44 Mb floppy disk... so i can install latest lilo.
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Nov 14, 2010
X crashes and reports a segmentation fault, address nil. I've been using the generic Radeon driver without any problems, until now.
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Nov 29, 2010
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Jun 27, 2010
how to check what my latest installed drivers are and how to install the latest? If I search for Nvidia in YaST then noting comes up. I beleive the latest drivers from Nvidia are 195.xxx
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Aug 5, 2011
If I go to the website and download the ISO file is it the exact same one that was released in April or will it contain the latest patches (e.g. security fixes, etc) that have been release since then? If it doesn't I suppose I'll have to download the entire ISO file, install the OS, and then have another couple hundred MB to download which is not what I'd prefer.
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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 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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Sep 20, 2009
My laptop is configured to boot openSUSE 11.1, Vista, and Win2k. Access Point is AirLink101 (Atheros Based).Laptop is Acer Aspire 9410-2028.Win2k wireless speed is 108 (using Atheros Drivers)Vista Wireless speed is 54 (using windows drivers)openSUSE 11.1 Wireless speed is 12 (Using MadWiFi)When I was on 10.3 it ran at 108 on 11.0 it was 36. 36 is not 108 but it was solid 36. I tried using networkmanager and speed went down to 1. Each new version of openSUSE has caused a drop in wireless speed.lspci |grep Atheros0a:05.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5001X+ Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
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