get online with slackware 13.37

Don’t think all about geeky stuff once you read this post’s title, I’m far less geeky today than in my collage days years ago, believe me my friend. Back to the topic, this post is just a lightweight documentation on how to connect my Slackware 13.37 box to the net using a Qualcomm chip-ed modem USB (lsusb result: ID 05c6:0018 Qualcomm, Inc). I bought this modem at nearby electronic center and unfortunately it didn’t recognized as a 3G modem out of the box, it just recognized as another  USB device by Slackware instead. But work fine inside windows 7 though.

The good thing is that Slackware 13.37 provides bunch of handy tools, usb_modeswitch is one of them. To make the modem recognized as a modem, I used sakis3g which utilize usb_modeswitch to switch the USB into modem. After it was recognized as modem then its time for KPPP to take part in. Just dont forget to set your APN while configuring new profile in KPPP. After all configuration stuff done, its time to login to KPPP and voila, me connected. Nice.

Its time to upgrade the default firefox version to the latest one. Happy browsing

ps: I still haven’t manage to write about my trip to belitung island yet, kinda occupied with gunpla-ing within past couple weeks

wake up, dont be such a slack …

finally … i had my wifi and NIC worked (in slackware 13.1 64) last night after days of trying. as i mentioned in my previous post, i finally use dell inspiron 14r (n4010) and slackware 13.1 as it’s OS. i bought it without any preinsttalled OS, but the seller installed a evaluation copy of windows 7 which has to be activated within 30 days.

kde desktop slackware 13.1

if you using dell inspiron 14r and consider to install slackware 13.1 you can read this post and try it, no guarantee that this will work on your system though since dell’s hardware can be different even for the same model.

ethernet card (NIC):

first we have to know the enemy, like sun tzu’s saying in his arts of war,  if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles. for now you do know that you are using dell inspiron 14r and slackware 13.1 as its OS, but the enemy is still unknown, so lets spy on them.