My Slackware64 13.1 system is running off a notebook that does not leave the desk often so I stay connected via a ethernet cable. Recently I set up the wireless configuration for my home network and while I would like to have it so that it automatically goes to the wireless interface when the wired is down, I do not think that is possible without wicd or some other network manager. Anyway, whenever I start up Slackware both the wired and wireless interfaces activate and acquire their own IP addresses. What I would like is for the wireless configuration to remain dormant so that all I would have to do is issue "ifconfig wlan0 up" to turn on the wireless interface/connection. Is this possible? As it stands I have to manually issue the "ifconfig wlan0 down" to turn it off once the system boots up and I log in.

When I say your post I was going to suggest using wicd. Is there some problem you have using wicd? Are you not running X or something?
If you want to use the terminal to launch the wireless, then read through this page from
Alien Bob's wiki:
http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...ckware:madwifi
The pertinent section is:

Network configuration
rc.wireless.conf

This page is also very good:
http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/...ckware:network


If you wish to use wicd though, you should return /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf to it's pristine unedited state before using wicd.

Hi,

Check out;

Even with ifplugd, the boot scripts will attempt to bring up the wired interface during boot.

Check my page on the eeePC, link in my signature.

jlinkels

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