Thanks for that :-)

I actually split my partition in 2 now where Salix 'used' to be and ran FreeBSD 9.0 x64 edition and Fedora 16 x64 both which support my hardware perfectly.

It's a real shame as I run Salix on older hardware which works really well and I like the leanness of it too so there's no ...

Ok so; here's a new thread with a more 'open' (I know direct Subjects are better but I only received the machine and don't know what works and what doesn't yet) subject.

First up the system has a combined headphone/mic port using the 4 pin 3.5mm jack format.

I get a pop when disconnecting my ...

Thanks for the help and chat in any case

You could add another file to the the templates dir with the extra options stripped and another name for that template. Then adding it to /etc/wicd/encryption/templates/active should make it visible. I had to do this for example to access my university wifi (eduroam) which uses some fancy ...

Ok as stated in the beginning am using wicd-curses.

I haven't created a profile as usually I work on the default profile and everything just 'out-of-the-box'. Actually what I have done is exactly the same as for the 32bit version of Salix which I used for my older uni-core machine.

Pressing the ...

There's an edit button, please use that instead of triple posting!!!

What's the output of lspci? Specifically the line regarding wireless. Possibly you need a more recent kernel, but let's see.


Apologies, however in other forums that I'm used to and have been using for many years they prefer ...

Ok i figured this out but I might have discovered a bug in the process with WICD.

I did this:


mv /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.bak
wpa_passphrase <essid> <passkey> >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
ifconfig wlan0 <ip_address ...

This is what I have in my /lib/firmware directory:
Thanks for any support!!

Here is the dmesg output regarding the interface:


[ 8.089642] iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, in-tree:
[ 8.089649] iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2010 Intel Corporation
[ 8.089808] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 8.089868] iwlagn 0000:03:00.0 ...

Hi,

I descovered Salix a few weeks ago as an up-to-date alternative to DSL (Damn Small Linux) which is now old and dead.....

Anyway, it works really well on my low powered 10 years old notebook hardware and doesn't overheat which had been the issue regarding every OS I tried on it including ...