Slax help
 

Ok got an old Dell laptop running Slax off a usb stick. Run into a brick wall when it comes to connection to my network. I get into wireless manager and scans the newtork and finds me but there is no simple connect options and the manager that just found the network says out of range

TIA for any help I know little about nix

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If no one can help can anyone recommend a different version to run off a flash drive? Ive tried Ubuntu but its a bit heavy for the job

Re: Slax help
 

Depends how your wireless is encrypted.
If you are using WEP, you can connect using the iwconfig command - see this thread.
If you are using WPA there is a discussion here. Using WPA with Linux is not trivial :( - unless it's improved greatly over the past year or two.

Re: Slax help
 

Ive downloaded the Puppylinux ISO and am currently installing to USB drive. This connected very easily to the net as a live cd :-)