I have an 802.11g MiniPCI wireless adapter on my Averatec 3700 laptop. I'm running FC5 on it right now but havn't gotten it to work. I want to run slackware on the laptop instead of fedora, but I want to make sure I can use the wireless card first.
Has anyone had any luck configuring such a device in Slack?
I'm not a complete linux noobie but I'm not overly advanced either.

Thanks

Slack does a good job with wireless. It's just a bit more work than some other distributions. I wrote a script to connect with mine, but after you install Slackware, check out "man iwconfig" to set up your wireless settings. The other thing is to load the modules for your wireless card. Do these steps in this order:

1. load the modules for the hardware> modprobe some_wireless_card_module
2. issue iwconfig commands> iwconfig eth0 essid "linksys" (if your network essid isn't named "linksys", change it)
3. dhcpcd -N -d -t 30 eth0

Note: Slackware initialization scripts can fire this up too. KDE has a wireless tool that may be helpful to you. I always use dhcpcd -N because it keeps dhcpcd from clobbering ntpd time synchonization. The -t 30 is to time out at 30 seconds instead of the default, which I think is 1 minute. Change the eth0 to eth1 if thats your wireless card. You can get a list of your cards by issuing "ifconfig". You can check your connection and see if you got an IP from the router by issuing "ifconfig eth0" where eth0 is your wireless card. Post back if you need more help or clarification. It's not as bad as it looks but it's definitely not straight forward either!

Thanks for the help! I'll give it a shot and see what happens.

One more thing I forgot. You may have to do "ifconfig eth0 up" to bring up the eth0 device. "ifconfig eth1 up" for the eth1 device. They may not necessarily be available on their own by just loading the proper modules. Insert this between steps 1 and 2.