New User with Wifi Problems

[jesse_m]

I'm a new user to Salix, been a Ubuntu and Debian user for a while but I have never had a wifi or networking issue, luckily. So, I am a little green with the steps and tools to trouble shoot this.

I just installed a full Salix installation on my old HP EliteBook 6930p and the only issue right now seems to be connecting to wifi.
I have looked through a few other questions and this is what I have tried:

I can see that my wireless card is a intel 5300:

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jesse[~]$ lspci | grep Network
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300

From another question I went to https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use ... rs/iwlwifi and found the driver I needed (iwlwifi-5000-ucode-8.83.5.1-1.tgz). I extracted the contents, and moved the iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode to /lib/firmware, which now contains

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jesse[~]$ ls /lib/firmware | grep iwlwifi-5000
iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode
iwlwifi-5000-5.ucode

When I click on the wicd icon in the top bar (MATE bar) the button to turn on or off the wifi does not appear to do anything. My wifi button at the top of my keyboard is constantly amber and doesn't appear to do anything either.

When I look at ifconfig I don't see wlan0 at all.

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esse[~]$ ifconfig
eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.1.112  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
        inet6 fe80::223:7dff:fe97:2655  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 00:23:7d:97:26:55  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 410846  bytes 544246091 (519.0 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 28  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 245862  bytes 24055610 (22.9 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
        device interrupt 22  memory 0xd0400000-d0420000  

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 0  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 60654  bytes 4669844 (4.4 MiB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 60654  bytes 4669844 (4.4 MiB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

When I look at iwconfig it looks like it definetly confirms that the wifi is powered off on my machine:

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jesse[~]$ iwconfig
eth0      no wireless extensions.

lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11abgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

In the getting started pdf it mentions that you have to enable the wifi radio with the sudo servicesetup utility. When I type that in the terminal I go to a curses like prompt and the wireless box is already checked.

The wicd Network manager says no wireless networks found.

Some other questions mentioned the rfkill command but that doesn't appear to be installed here, is that a helpfull package to insatll?

Any suggestions or pointers in the right direction would be very appreciated.
Thank you.

[gapan]

Hi Jesse and welcome to the forums.

Your issue is probably that your hardware is too new for the kernel shipped in Salix 14.1. You can try these newer kernel packages: viewtopic.php?f=20&t=6628

Or you could get the ones from a slackware-current repository.

https://docs.salixos.org/wiki/How_to_in ... ent_kernel