I was having a similar issue with my wireless connection with S13.1-64 as this thread. My lappie uses the Intel Wifi Link 5100 AGN and had a problem pulling an IP from public wireless, however, I resolved that by setting the channel within the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf to the strongest antenna. However, now my problem is just maintaining the connection once it is established, either by time or heavy use the connection will drop, and I will typically have to restart the rc.inet1 script to get my access back again. According to the init script at start-up dhcpcd is forked, but apparently it doesn't do anything. If anyone has any ideas, I am all ears.

Hi, how can that be done? this looks interesting to me.

Once I was using Arch I solved this issue with the tools ifplugd, wpa_actiond and netcfg. Ifplugd is a daemon which manages the wired connections depending on if a cable is plugd in or not. wpa_actiond does the same thing for wireless networks and netcfg provides profiles in order to connect automatically to the apropriate network.
Both, ifplugd and wpa_actiond can handle dhcpcd. Unfortunately the tools are not part of Slackware but for ifplugd there is a slackbuild in Alien Bobs repository.

Since I've installed Slackware on my netbook yesterday, I am also interested in a proper solution. I'll follow this thread and hope that someone comes up with one.

Markus

It is actually rather simple. At the command line I just scanned for all of the wireless antennas using the following command: iwlist wlan0 scan. It will give you a list of all of the access points it finds along with signal quality, essid, channel, and other various bits of useful info. Then I entered the essid and the channel into the rc.inet1.conf file (the wireless section is at the bottom). Once I did that I pull an IP every time, but like I said it will not maintain the connection for some reason.

On a hunch, I decided to install wicd from the extras directory on the DVD, it seems to have helped immensely, but I am not quite sure I am ready to say it is solved.