I'm really getting anoyed with slackware at the moment, every time i go someplace i have to run a script to configure the wireless network. for example, i go to the coffee shop(rude awakening) and to connect i have to run ./rude containing

ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.160 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add default gw 192.168.1.1 wlan0
iwconfig wlan0 essid "Rude Awakening"

and when i go someplace new i have to boot xubuntu, get the network configuration and write a new script(or cp old new&&vim new). also is wont automaticaly pick up the nameservers so i have to go to xubuntu connect then run cat /etc/resolve.conf >> /media/slack/etc/resolve.conf

Ive tried using KWifiManager, and control center. the only successful way to connect to anything is how i described above.

and forget trying to connect to my stepdads network at home, it's got a wpa code on it. i dont know how to connect through slackware, and xubuntu hangs or refuses to connect.

Have you tried Wicd? http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.1/network/wicd/

works awesome, now how do i do wpa or wep 128??? i'm it keeps telling me "this network requires encryption to be enabled."

In the advanced settings from the connection you can choose the encrytion

did you installed
wpa_supplicant ?

Wicd is part of Slackware now (in /extra).
You can get 1.5.9 from my repo <http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/>

i figured out that its part of slack. i got it from http://packages.slackware.it/. but i just discovered even though its getting the ip address and route now, its still not getting the nameserver. is there a universal nameserver i can get to from any isp anywhere on the net? or is there some way to get it to pick it up? arround here search nc.rr.com works sometimes, but half the time i could be on an embark dsl connection.

You can configure all of those settings in wicd. If you need to put in a static dns, try opendns.org. Their nameservers are in the lower right corner of their home page.

thanks for the help, everything's working sofar. I'll let you know how it works out when i get home and try to log onto BnT with a wpa key.

works great WEP, WPA the works, easy to configure thanks again
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next step replace xubuntu partition with suse or redhat, and see how i like it.