Mateusz Marzantowicz wrote:
> On Mon, 09 May 2005 14:10:44 -0700, masked.slacker@gmail.com wrote:
>
>
>>There is an rc.wireless script that executes by default in slack. I
>>would say probably, but again its not gauranteed. But it should be a
>>trivial manner to figure out what Slax is doing to enable it, and then
>>simply adding that to the Slackware boot up if it doesn't do it by
>>default.
>
>
> I had to add smoe lines manually so rc.wireless script is called from rc.M
> (like rc.inet1 is). I also had to install and configure ndiswrapper
> software since my wlan card is not supported by kernel. Even then I was
> unable to use network until I made some changes to rc.wireless.
> I think many less experienced or just not interested in users may find it
> diffcult to use wireless devices in Slackware.
>

See http://sox.homeip.net/slackware/rc_scripts/ where I address just
that issue (wireless networking in Slack). Also, for various modern
wireless cards, there's a Slackware package (plus SlackBuild scripts
in case you want to build them yourself) at
http://sox.homeip.net/slackware/slackbuilds/

I hope my enhancements to rc.inet1 and rc.wireless will appear in
Slackware in future; otherwise, you can use them as drop-in
replacements for the Slackware originals.

BTW: do NOT call rc.wireless from rc.M, as it is already called from
rc.inet1.

Eric