Hey, so I've been eager to try this distro on my new netbook (an Acer Aspire 722). I've managed to get it to work on my old Toshiba with a USB.
However, on my current little netbook, at every boot, everything works just fine. Yet, when I arrive at "Starting up X11 session manager." the boot just seems to halt. I can type, and it registers my keys, so it's not frozen... It just doesn't go anywhere.
My graphics card is a Radeon, so I picked up a module designated for an x86 Radeon driver... That hasn't really changed anything, though.
However, now, when I try to connect to the internet, I am unable to find my wireless hardware within my netbook... I installed the basic network modules, and it works fine on my Toshiba.
Congratulations on what you've gotten to work for you so far! :-) As for your wireless card, you can:
- Compile a new Atheros or Atheros-compatible driver from scratch by googling it
- Download the firmware and try to apply it from Ubuntu documentation (they should have a link to the firmware in their WifiDocs; not the greatest suggestion... but it could work for you)
- Get the modules. If you try the first tip, you'll need b43-fwcutter; or you might be lucky enough to find an Atheros module here.
- Does your card actually work? If so, get the Slax wireless modules, particularly the Slax Network Setup (SNS) and Wireless Assistant modules. These should help you connect once your card's firmware is set to go.
I hope this is helpful to you... as I've said & heard quite a bit on here, if these tips don't work, you can always check out the Porteus project at porteus.org.
Thank you for your help, I will try those suggestions until I get something to work. I know for a fact that my wireless card works, for I am using it in Windows at the moment I type this, haha. However, I just get a loopback when I try it in Slax. So, we'll see. The laptop is brand new, so I'm assuming the wireless driver just might not be an available module at the moment, so I might have to compile from scratch.
After further poking around, I found an Atheros driver that should correspond with the model I have in the modules for Slax. I'm going to try it (although I had already used one that I had assumed would work, but didn't.)
I also realized that I never had activated the drivers
So, I'm gonna use
depmod -a
modprobe atl1
Hopefully that'll do it. I really hope I don't have to compile a new driver.
Okay, so I found my problem.
I believe I found the correct driver module, it's for the Atheros AR81 family, so it should work just fine for my network drivers.
However, when I attempted to activate the module, the Slax module program claimed that there was an error activating it... What would cause that?
Alright, so I got eth0 to work, and can now connect to the internet just fine when tethered to my ethernet cable.
However, I still am unable to get my wireless card to work... My ethernet is an AR81 model. Sadly, my wireless card is an ARB1. I can't seem to locate a module compatible with this new wireless card.
So, it seems as if I'm off to compile my driver.
A quick question regarding this:
Once I compile my driver, how do I integrate it into Slax? Do I have to somehow convert it to an .lzm format? Or is it just complete? I've never compiled before...
Well, I'm calling it quits... There is literally no documentation on my network driver, not even on Ubuntu's forums. I'm not very experienced with compiling either, so I'm not gonna take this on.
I already had an .iso of Porteus on my computer, for trying out later on. I'm just gonna switch to that until someone's managed to compile and port my computer's network driver over.
I'm not sure how the OP did it--I'm guessing he must have found the right module? Also, just to be helpful, if you're having trouble with X, there's several threads you can check out to solve the issue:
tywuzhere wrote:
Hey, so I've been eager to try this distro on my new netbook (an Acer Aspire 722). I've managed to get it to work on my old Toshiba with a USB.
However, on my current little netbook, at every boot, everything works just fine. Yet, when I arrive at "Starting up X11 session manager." the boot just seems to halt. I can type, and it registers my keys, so it's not frozen... It just doesn't go anywhere.
My graphics card is a Radeon, so I picked up a module designated for an x86 Radeon driver... That hasn't really changed anything, though.
tywuzhere wrote:
Okay, I got the X issue to resolve.
However, now, when I try to connect to the internet, I am unable to find my wireless hardware within my netbook... I installed the basic network modules, and it works fine on my Toshiba.
My only option is "lo"
Hi, I have the same problem. How did you sort it out?
I'm not the OP... but just in case you don't get a reply, here's a few things that he may have tried. You could try to run xconf yourself, get your display adapter drivers, start Slax in Vesa mode, or edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf with vi. At any rate, I definitely won't take away from what he'll tell you... :-)
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"I already had an .iso of Porteus on my computer, for trying out later on. I'm just gonna switch to that until someone's managed to compile and port my computer's network driver over."
tywuzhere wrote:
Okay, I got the X issue to resolve.
However, now, when I try to connect to the internet, I am unable to find my wireless hardware within my netbook... I installed the basic network modules, and it works fine on my Toshiba.
My only option is "lo"
How u resolved x issue. Can u please help me. i to facing the same problem. and mine is samsung netbook n100s.
@Dinesh
The bottom line is, check if you got the right drivers..
In Linux, most drivers are compiled in the kernel, or you can add them with the "modprobe" command.
So, it's a different approach then in/with the windows OS.
Like mentioned in this (and other) treads, there are also slax modules that hold drivers.
So there is a chance that you can add your driver in a very easy way (= adding a slax module).
