Finally online with Slackware Live
I am calling from deep inside a Sandisk Cruze 32 GB USB stick.
Thanks to Alien-Bob for the iso2usb.sh script. Slackware live 14.2 installed flawlessly, I used a live ISO burned to a DVD to get up and running then transfer to the USB stick....BUT I could not get wifi to work until now. I am 'old school' and have spent the better part of 3 weeks reading threads, posts and 'man' pages to figure this out... I hope this post helps others also. My Laptop is an HP Pavilion G6, Yea you guessed it, F12 is the on/off button for wifi, as I have read, other Laptops use F2, F5 or F8 as the wifi button. There have been/are many issues about this 'wifi button' in other help forums as well as here but I believe it to be part of the 'Airplane Mode' that is built into the Laptop itself as part of the its Security features. I kept getting this.. Code:
bash-5.1# rfkill Code:
bash-5.1# rfkill |
rfkill list
rfkill unblock all Very handy commands, had to use them numerous times with my HP G62 for the past year, I think it started after kernel 4.19 was used in my distro of choice, but only with my HP laptop!!! :) |
rfkill is an excellent tool
Yes rfkill is an excellent tool, But it can only do so much... this is from the rfkill man page....
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Success with WD External hard drive...
I installed the Slackware Live into my WD external hard drive and works Great... even managed to re-size the Persistence.img without issues.... Linux is like "Gumby"... very flexible.
Does anyone remember the early days when cell phones used "M2" memory cards? I stuffed the Slackware live ISO into an 8GB M2 memory card, LOL... it was slow because the read/write speed on these card are Class 2 I believe...But it worked and booted up just fine, not much room to store anything on it, 3 gigs or so... Keep on Slacking... |
I've noticed the same issue with slackware-current, rfkill was not enough, I had to press the wifi button multiple times because was not blinking which is normal but I couldn't guess when was on/off. Hopefully this gets sorted on stable release.
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