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Old 02-20-2008, 08:59 AM
Mad-Eye Moody
 
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Default wireless cards based on rt2x00 chipset

well, googling and rtfm-ing didn't clear this for me, so...
well, what is the "official" slackware way of doing it? i mean, i compiled
drivers from source, checkinstall-ed it, and it creates a device called ra0
for my wifi card. how to initialize wifi network normally?
for now, i have to run this script at bootup to access my wifi network...
/etc/rc.d/rc.wireless ra0
ifconfig ra0 10.32.0.51 broadcast 10.32.255.255 netmask 255.255.255.0
ip route add default via 10.32.0.1 dev ra0
....and add my dns to /etc/resolv.conf
(this works, but i would prefer a non-"manual workaround" way)

http://slackbook.org/ says, regarding /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf (or
/etc/rc.d/rc.wireless??)...
Make sure you replace "eth0" with whatever network interface your wireless
card uses and change "mynetwork" to the essid you wish to use.
however, i hope i'm not stupid, but i dont see option for changing it
there. or anywhere. so, whats the "simple, slackware way of doing it"?
and by "doing it", i mean setting that does "connect to wifi network, get
ip/dns/gateway settings via dhcp, work without much hassle"
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