Loaded PCLOS 2012 and having two problems.

[dsonyay]

I'm on an older Dell Inspiron (15") laptop, 2gigs memory

I've been running PCLinuxOS since 2007 and as of yesterday was running 2010.  I decided to install 2012 (full version) after having 2010 issues after trying to update too many packages at once on Synaptic (I tried to update over 200 programs- big mistake).  It had been a while since I did any updates.

sooo.. I tried to run 2012 Live CD and it didn't let me connect to wireless.  I tried to trouble shoot and for some reason my Wireless (wlan) shows I'm using an Intel setup rather than Broadcomm.

I figured, I'll worry about that later and proceded to load 2012.  I left my partions alone (not a dual boot laptop).  I use a swap partition, a \, and a \home.  I loaded 2012 on the \ partition and told it to leave the \home partion alone.

Load seemed to go OK.

I created the root account, and a guest account, and tried to create my account \home\ds.  Seemed to go fine.

When I logged in as ds, I got tons of warnings (can't remember them all).  Warnings about KDE, some sort of bookmark warnings, warnings to tell an adminstrator to look at my account etc.  I figured there must have been too much 2010 stuff in my home folder that 2012 didn't like.

When I log in as root or guest, I get no warnings.  When I log in as myself the boot up seems to get stuck for a few minutes then it loads up and shows tons of warnings.

Since wireless wasn't working, I plugged into the the laptop and did the Synaptic "reload",  update, as requested.  All went well.

I still have issues after  logging in as myself and wireless will not work.  With 2010, it was a breeze, no issues and I did the update from 2007 the same way.

First I want to fix wireless:

Here's the deal:
When I look at "Select Network to Configure", I have three selections:

o Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11 b/g WLAN
o Wlan0: Wlan0
o Wlan0: Use a windows driver (with NDISwrapper)

I choose the first option (it's already selected actully)and then get a message that says: "Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)"

Can anyone help me out here??

I'm not scared! I don't mind opening a terminal and "goin nerd" 

[Old-Polack]

I'm on an older Dell Inspiron (15") laptop, 2gigs memory

I've been running PCLinuxOS since 2007 and as of yesterday was running 2010.  I decided to install 2012 (full version) after having 2010 issues after trying to update too many packages at once on Synaptic (I tried to update over 200 programs- big mistake).  It had been a while since I did any updates.

sooo.. I tried to run 2012 Live CD and it didn't let me connect to wireless.  I tried to trouble shoot and for some reason my Wireless (wlan) shows I'm using an Intel setup rather than Broadcomm.

I figured, I'll worry about that later and proceded to load 2012.  I left my partions alone (not a dual boot laptop).  I use a swap partition, a \, and a \home.  I loaded 2012 on the \ partition and told it to leave the \home partion alone.

That should be / and /home... (forward slash, not backslash) The backslash used in paths is a Windows thing. In Linux the backslash is used to escape what follows.

Load seemed to go OK.

I created the root account, and a guest account, and tried to create my account \home\ds.  Seemed to go fine.

When I logged in as ds, I got tons of warnings (can't remember them all).  Warnings about KDE, some sort of bookmark warnings, warnings to tell an adminstrator to look at my account etc.  I figured there must have been too much 2010 stuff in my home folder that 2012 didn't like.

When I log in as root or guest, I get no warnings.  When I log in as myself the boot up seems to get stuck for a few minutes then it loads up and shows tons of warnings.

There should be no guest account on an installed system, just the root and normal user accounts, and if reusing the old normal user directory, the UID and GID of the normal user must be the same as they were on the original installation, or changed to the new values, if different on the new installation. (See last entry.)

Since wireless wasn't working, I plugged into the the laptop and did the Synaptic "reload",  update, as requested.  All went well.

I still have issues after  logging in as myself and wireless will not work.  With 2010, it was a breeze, no issues and I did the update from 2007 the same way.

First I want to fix wireless:

Here's the deal:
When I look at "Select Network to Configure", I have three selections:

o Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11 b/g WLAN
o Wlan0: Wlan0
o Wlan0: Use a windows driver (with NDISwrapper)

I choose the first option (it's already selected actully)and then get a message that says: "Unable to find network interface for selected device (using wl driver)"

Can anyone help me out here??

I'm not scared! I don't mind opening a terminal and "goin nerd"  

Can't help with the wireless, but as root, assuming user ds is the same as before, enter this command;

[root@localhost ~]# chown -R ds:ds /home/ds                        <Enter>

That should set the proper ownership values (UID:GID) of all the existing files in /home/ds to be in sync with the new installation's values.

Reboot after the above, and try logging into the normal user account to see if that ends the error messages.

Post your results.

[Just17]

Check the wireless device is not switched off .......  key combo or switch depending on laptop .....  or even in the BIOS ...

[dsonyay]

That should be / and /home... (forward slash, not backslash) The backslash used in paths is a Windows thing. In Linux the backslash is used to escape what follows.

Oops, sorry, i hit the first slash I saw on the keyboard. 

as root, assuming user ds is the same as before, enter this command;

[root@localhost ~]# chown -R ds:ds /home/ds                        <Enter>

That should set the proper ownership values (UID:GID) of all the existing files in /home/ds to be in sync with the new installation's values.

Reboot after the above, and try logging into the normal user account to see if that ends the error messages.

Post your results.

I'll give that a try, thanks so much for the help.
David

[dsonyay]

Check the wireless device is not switched off .......  key combo or switch depending on laptop .....  or even in the BIOS ...

My wireless light is not on.  Trying to turn on with the blue function key and
F2  key won't do anything.

[dsonyay]

Old Polac-  your last tip worked fine.  No errors when I logged in as ds. Thank you!



Don't know what caused this error because last time I loaded 2010 over 2007 on / directory I had zero problems.

[dsonyay]

Also my Home folder on the desktop jas am
! (exclamation point) .    When I try to open a Warning box opens a
says " This will start the program: dolphin %i -caption "%c" %u

So I hit the Continue button and then a box opens that says
Sorry Unable to make the service Home executable, aborting execution.

Any tips?

[kjpetrie]

Check the permissions of your Desktop folder and /home.

Pclos used to start numbering users from 501, but sometime in 2010 or 2011 changed that to 500. That's why your default UID was previously 501 but has now become 500. When re-installing leaving /home untouched it's always best to specify the UID and GID manually to be the same as before.

The exclamation mark is a KDE4 remedy for a social engineering vulnerability in which .desktop launchers can be disguised as other file types. The first time you click one it gives the warning to ensure you know it will run a command. The exclamation mark will disappear after first use, once the launcher has been set executable. This implies you were using KDE3 before, so there might be a problem with the command in KDE4.

However, if that's the case, you are likely to have more problems with such a big jump.

[dsonyay]

I fixed the problem with the exclamation point showing on the Home folder.
Under properties > Permissions  it was showing user as "guest. And group as "guest."

Had go in as root and change to User ds and Grour to ds


Dont know how that happened.