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Hi Salixers

I am a happy salixer with a minor problem
My wireless works flawlessly in Salix
on another partition i want slackware current; but before that happening I needed to install slackware 13 which I did;
after installpkg wicd-etcetera I can see various wireless ESSIDs but not my (FritzBox);
trying to compare lsmod on Salix and Slackware gives me varoius modules not showing in Slackware but modprobing them doesnt solve my problem;
comparing both /lib/firmware dirs seems to give almost identical dirs.

Any idea what might be the problem?
output of
mg[~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 92)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 02)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04)
02:01.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5761e Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100


and iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode is present in /lib/firmware of both salix and slackware

any suggestions?

Do I need to set up config files for wireless even if i have wicd installed?

Greeetings
Marcel

By the way I want to try Kde 4.4 on slackware current ...

So, wireless works in salix 13.0, but your wifi network doesn't show up in slackware current?

The wicd package in slackware 13.0 is buggy, you better replace that with the one from the salix repository. The one from slackware current is OK though.

emgee_1 wrote:By the way I want to try Kde 4.4 on slackware current ...

Then you should try AlienBob's KDE 4.4 build: http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/

Is now solved : indeed changing to a different WICD version showed the wanted ESSID.

Only now I noticed that things are been made in place for a SALIX-current..
so all my trouble of setting up slackware current seems now unnecessary;

Thanks again for the kind help..

Greetings SALIXERS

Marcel