I have a Netgear WG311v3. My router is a Netgear DG834G.

My wireless connection is WPA-PSK-TKIP encrypted.

I am having a bit of trouble working out exactly what I need to do to get internet going on Slackware and would appreciate some help.

This is what I think I need to do;

configure /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf
configure /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf
configure /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant.conf

If I configure the above three files correctly and then run /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_start could I expect wireless to start?

Is that correct?

Any help appreciated.

Hi

You only need to configure two files: In fact you could even delete /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf because all it's configuration items are available in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf anyway. The file is being kept for people who want to tie their settings to the MAC address of their wireless card.

If your card shows up as wlan0 then running manually will start the card. Slackware will run this on boot so that you do not have to run it manually every time. This wiki link has some background info for setting up WPA in Slackware.

Regards, Eric

Thanks Eric

I read through your mad wifi guide and found that very helpful.

I have managed to generate one messsage now rather than the series of error messages that I have managed over the last few days. Progress of sorts.

Anyway, here's the latest

/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1: wlan0 information: 'Any ESSID'
Polling for DHCP server on interface wlan0:
No carrier detected on wlan0. Reducing DHCP timeout to 10 seconds.
dhcpcd: MAC address = 00:1b:2f:37:36:1f

I'm hoping it means I'm just a whisker away from having working internet in Slackware and just a few adjustments are all that's needed. If not, I'll get a natively supported PCI card, lol.

All comments and/or help appreciated

Barry

Ok, so I reset my router to no security and I can at least conenct to my network now which is good; issues must arise from the treatment/configuration of WPA. I needed to run ifconfig wlan0 up to get the network up and running.

I can't conect to the internet, however.

Any ideas?

I was getting the message network unreachable from ping.

The problem resided in not having configured /etc/hosts.allow, hosts.deny and inetd.conf.

That done, I now have internet access on Slackware.

I am hopeful of being able to reinstate WPA-PSK tomorrow.

After earlier success, all went FUBAR.

I think I needed a different version of Ndiswrapper so I switched to the version that PCLOS uses and which I know works and everything's fine now, even with WPA-PSK.

I suppose the moral of the story is this - RTFM and sort it out yourself.