I am running slackware 10.2
My wireless card is a 1370 wlan mini-Pci Card.
I have a linksys wireless G router.

Slackware doesnt know my card is there and so it cant turn it on and send out a wireless signal.

Has anyone used the same model card and got it to run on linux?

I have a similar card in my laptop (a 1300). I'm going to guess that the 1370 also uses the Broadcom chipset, in which case ndiswrapper is going to be the easiest way to get this working. Just to be sure, have a look in the output of lspci and make sure that this card does have a Broadcom 43xx chipset.

Review http://www.tuxmagazine.com/node/1000167/ for Wireless Networking with ndiswrapper aticle to help install and troubleshoot wireless card. Kde InfoCenter may give you info on wireless card. An XP device manager can also help. Google wireless card model may help too.
You need to know what chip your wireless card to pick correct driver, and you may need firmware installed too. The above article should help. Good luck.

So now i used ndiswrapper and the system is reading my card.

Now i have a few other issues.

I have my internal ethernet card and i need to turn it on i guess. I've been able to do it before using eth0 possibly. I simply dont remember what the command was.


The more prominent issue is that now the system is telling me that the computer is out of range with the laptop. Though i'm right by it.

You mean during install/setup netconfig didn't setup your nic? Slackware Linux Basics for SW10.2 book and Linux Essentials2 by Alan Hicks,etal have good basic network setup sections. Glad you got ndiswrapper working. Don't forget linux-on-laptops SW install notes for your lappy for great tips. Good luck.

I've tried configuring my channels and stuff via iwconfig but my system still keeps seeing my router but ot accessing it and simply wont connect. Is their something in my own router that needs to be changed?

If you can see your router, that is only half the battle. How are you trying to get an IP address?

How do i go about configuring my ip?

There are really two ways, DHCP and static. DHCP is what is used most of the time and in Slackware the command to use is dhcpcd. So in your case with ndiswrapper, you run (as root) dhcpcd wlan0 and if you have a DHCP server on your LAN (almost all routers are DHCP servers) then you should get an IP address and be able to surf.

Setting a static IP is a little more involved in that you have to do three things:

1) Give your card an IP address with ifconfig. You do have to know the general IP address structure of the network your connecting to, but it should go something like this:

ifconfig wlan0 1.2.3.4 only replace 1.2.3.4 with the IP address you want to use.

2) Set the gateway with the route command. This basically tells your network where to send the traffic so that it gets out of your lan. The command is something like this:

route add default gw 4.5.6.7 only replace 4.5.6.7 with the IP address of your router.

3) Configure your /etc/resolv.conf file so that it knows about your ISPs nameservers. If you look at your router's pages, you should be able to find the IP addresses of your ISP DNS servers. For each one of those, you need to add a line to /ect/resolv.conf:

nameserver 1.2.3.4 (only use the right IP addresses)

Sometimes you can get away with just having a single line in /etc/resolv.conf that points to your router, but it doesn't always work.

Thank you all for the help. I believe now its just the router i have thats the problem. I been able to connect to other computers so i know now that my card officially works in slackware.

Congrats on getting it working. If you think its your router, you might try rebooting it. Sometimes mine just seems to get confused about how to handle wireless connections, and rebooting usually clears things up.