Can't connect to wireless network. wirelessassistant is down.
 

I don't know how to connect to a wireless network in Slackware. When I using MS Windows I just scan for the network and then connect.
Please tell me how to connect to a wireless network with iwconfig or wireless assisstant or etc. I downloaded the .tgz package of wlassistant-0.5.7-i386-1.tgz and using installpkg with root permission to install it. But I can't start the wireless assistant:

bash3.1# wlassistant
wlassistant: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeui.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Hi,

you can use wpa_supplicant, edit the file /etc/wpa_supplicant and insert the settings for your wlan-network. Then in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.config look at the settings for wlan0. The following line has to be uncommented:.
Start wlan0 with This will be a first quick method to connect to the internet. For further more elaborate and flexible configuration look at the wicd-package in the extra-directory.

Markus

I connected to the internet now via my wirelesscard.
I downloaded the wpa_supplicant package but it seems a little bit difficult to configure it. I try to find on the slackbuild but the package doesn't exist there.
I solved my problem by take my wired NIC down and take my wireless NIC up the use "iwlist wlan0 scan" to scan for the ESSID, then I use "iwconfig wlan0 essid <id>" to connect to the wireless network.
It works fine this way. So I think I'll use it :).
Anyway, thanks for your help.

You can also use wicd. This is found in /extra on a Slackware-12.2 or 13.0 CD/DVD. It will find wireless networks for you automatically.