Zenwalk 8 Fresh IInstall Need Help With Wifi
 

Hi:

I just installed Zenwalk 8 on my Sony Vaio and it runs great.

The problem I'm running into is I'm having a terrible time getting the wifi working.

I created a /etc/wpa_supplicant configuration file and rebooted and created a WiFi connection in Network Connections but that didn't help.

How do I get the wireless working?

install wicd and be happy.

The wireless connection is working now:-:)

So...I upgraded netpkg--
Any clue why netpkg isn't launching?

After upgrading netpkg I'm getting this message:

seem zen has updated you should update.

How do I update?

I tried xnetpkg and that's not working.

Running xnetpkg was in the Zenwalk Package Management documentation but it's not working.

Any ideas?

Evidently the error message that I posted in post #4 is related to a perl issue and the only way to solve it is to rebuild perl.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213408

I suspect that there are 2 different pkg's of perl and that's causing the mismatch OR> the perl script isn't working with the version of perl that is installed which would (I'm thinking) is why the netpkg gui isn't launching.

I won't be spending any more time on this and will just look for another distribution at this time.

Oh, btw all attemps to lauch or fix netpkg failed.

netpkg CLI is not dependent on perl (in fact : nearly not dependent on anything : it's a bash and pkgtool cli frontend) : so you can use it when xnetpkg (GUI version) is broken for some reason (perl problem for example).

JP