Wireless and a few problems

[qidachyi]

Hihi,

I've just started using the full version of Salix. Everything works except wireless/touchpad/thumbdrives.

1) Thumb Drive

When I plug in a thumbdrive, two exact windows pop up showing the contents. How do I make it so that it's only 1 window?

2) Touchpad

I can scroll with my touchpad but I can't tap to click. Under mouse, there are no tap to click options.

3) Installation

Installation will freeze at the fontcache screen, took me a few tries to get past the freezing. I'm installing from thumbdrive.

4) Wireless

Ok this is a headache. I downloaded the broadcom-sta driver from the official site. Extract it and tried to "make" under the terminal console.
I get this error message "/lib/modules/2.xxxxx/build No such file or directory can be found". The xxxxx is the kernel number which I don't have it now. I'm using the Salix provided kernel.

I searched on the net and some solutions provided didn't work for me. Like using "make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build M=`pwd` or using Slackbuild script.
I don't know what to do now.

[Duncan_Idaho]

I can confirm the freeze during the fontcache setup
but I was using a salix 13.1 cd, the installation went fine with 13.0 though

[thenktor]

1) That's strange. You can disable "auto opening" of usb drives in Thunar settings (something like thunar volume management, no thunar here and i can't remember exactly)

2) You might need a *.fdi (hal policy) file in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/ with touchpad settings.

3) I had the same issue once, but no problem at next try... No idea why this happened. Was installing from USB drive, too.

4) First install the kernel source package and then try again

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slapt-get -u
slapt-get -i kernel-source

[gapan]

1) Thumb Drive

When I plug in a thumbdrive, two exact windows pop up showing the contents. How do I make it so that it's only 1 window?

Does the thumbdrive by any change have 2 partitions?

2) Touchpad

I can scroll with my touchpad but I can't tap to click. Under mouse, there are no tap to click options.

Try creating a /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi file with the following contents:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
  <device>
    <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
      <match key="info.product" contains="Synaptics TouchPad">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="AlpsPS/2 ALPS">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="appletouch">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>
      <match key="info.product" contains="bcm5974">
        <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
      </match>

          <merge key="input.x11_options.MinSpeed" type="string">0.1</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxSpeed" type="string">0.7</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.AccelFactor" type="string">0.003</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">on</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">2</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">3</merge>
          
          <merge key="input.x11_options.FingerLow" type="string">20</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.FingerHigh" type="string">30</merge>
          
          <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapTime" type="string">200</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.MaxTapMove" type="string">250</merge>
          
      <merge key="input.x11_options.VertEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.VerteScrollDelta" type="string">2</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizEdgeScroll" type="string">true</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizScrollDelta" type="string">1</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">true</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.CircularScrolling" type="string">true</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.CircScrollTrigger" type="string">8</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.CircScrollDelta" type="string">0.1</merge>

      <merge key="input.x11_options.LeftEdge" type="string">2000</merge>
      <merge key="input.x11_options.TopEdge" type="string">2000</merge>

    </match>
  </device>
</deviceinfo>

3) Installation

Installation will freeze at the fontcache screen, took me a few tries to get past the freezing. I'm installing from thumbdrive.

I have personally seen this happen once with a slackware DVD, but never with a salix CD. I'm guessing it's the same problem, but no idea why it happens, there's no way to reproduce it.

4) Wireless

Ok this is a headache. I downloaded the broadcom-sta driver from the official site. Extract it and tried to "make" under the terminal console.
I get this error message "/lib/modules/2.xxxxx/build No such file or directory can be found". The xxxxx is the kernel number which I don't have it now. I'm using the Salix provided kernel.

No idea about broadcoms, I've never had one, but maybe you just need a firmware file placed in /lib/firmware ? What module should be used with it? What does google say?

[baboo]

I've never been able to get broadcom to work in slackware. However, I've had it working in Pardus and Ubuntu flavors. You might try searching on Ubuntu forum for tips.

I solved my problem by using a usb wireless adapter.

not much help for you I am afraid

[stillborn]

Broadcom:
You need to post here your

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lspci | grep Net

this i mine
lspci | grep Net
10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
30:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)

this and 2 other different models has worked for me last 3 years, with bcm43xx, b43 or ndiswrapper with no problems.

Touchpad:
I don't use /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi policy, but i made my touchpad to work by modifying my /etx/X11/xorg.conf.

http://wolvix.pastebin.com/m707cd3fc , look for the *<------------lines espesially.