Currently im running slackware 12.1,and was following alien bobs wiki.
however its been down for 2 days!
ok here is what i have done so far;i installed madwifi-hal-0.10.56-current.
my wireless card according to lspci is;06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter (rev 01)
This is what i get for iwconfig;

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wifi0 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Slackware" Nickname:"Slackware"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm Sensitivity=1/1
Retryff RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Encryption key:******************* Security mode:restricted
Power Managementff
Link Quality=0/70 Signal level=-96 dBm Noise level=-96 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

and this is what i put in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf;

IFNAME[4]="ath0"
IPADDR[4]="192.168.1.46"
NETMASK[4]="255.255.255.0"
#USE_DHCP[4]="yes"
#DHCP_HOSTNAME[4]="icculus-wireless"
#DHCP_KEEPRESOLV[4]="yes"
#DHCP_KEEPNTP[4]="yes"
#DHCP_KEEPGW[4]="yes"
#DHCP_IPADDR[4]=""
WLAN_ESSID[4]=Slackware
WLAN_MODE[4]=Managed
WLAN_RATE[4]="54M auto"
WLAN_CHANNEL[4]="auto"
WLAN_KEY[4]="***********************"

im not sure if this is right,i can pick up networks around me using kwifi manager.but my wireless light is out and im not sure if its working properly,so i could use some help setting this up.
i seem to be connecting to my own card??
any help would be greatly appreciated!!!!
Rick

Yes, very annoying.
The web server that hosts my Wiki and my Blog (as well as the Slackware Book and other stuff) has changed the IP address but the DNS entries for slackbook.org have not been adjusted. The admin responsible for this change can apparently not be contacted at the moment...

In the meantime, http://wiki.alienbase.nl/ has a copy of the wiki pages.

Eric

Thanks alien bob. i followed the instructions,and i pickup networks around me,but im connecting to my own card!?so somewhere ive made a mistake.
I just dont know where.what do i need to post to track this down?
thanks
Rick
ps,how do you make those code boxes?

[ code]...[ /code] without the spaces

I also use an Atheros card. I'd suggest that you install WICD. Make sure to read the documentation that comes with the tarball, place the script they provide into /etc/rc.d/rc.local and comment out the card configs in rc.inet1.conf as instructed.

Works like a charm for me.

+1 for Wicd

Very convenient for travelling with.

thanks wicd did the trick!
Rick