I am confused about how to configure a wireless network in Slackware.
There is configuration option in both rc.wireless.conf and
rc.inet1.conf. Which one should we use?

Olive

Olive wrote:
> I am confused about how to configure a wireless network in Slackware.
> There is configuration option in both rc.wireless.conf and
> rc.inet1.conf. Which one should we use?
>
> Olive
Both

rc.inet1.conf sets up IP, netmask, gateway, DHCP, etc for ALL network interfaces that
may be present.

rc.wireless.conf sets up the wireless parameters: ESSID, channel, mode, encryption, etc.

rc.inet1.conf can be used to override the settings in rc.wireless.conf

my notebook have 2 networks (wireless,internal 10/100)
In case you have DHCPserver or DHCP from router
you need to manaul config in rc.inet1.conf otherwise you will never
have IP address for eth1

my default
eth0 is for internal which corrected by netcfg or pkgtool
but for wireless (eth1) you have to look in rc.inet1.conf
and add YES in eth1 section
USE_DHCP[1]="YES"



Olive wrote:
> I am confused about how to configure a wireless network in Slackware.
> There is configuration option in both rc.wireless.conf and
> rc.inet1.conf. Which one should we use?
>
> Olive