I upgraded to 14.0 today and virtually everything worked like a charm. Awesome job there :-)!

My wireless works just fine too (settings are in rc.inet1 and wpa_supplicant.conf). However, I noticed that NetworkManager is now used by default and I would really like to try that (since I want to try using the VPN connections therein). The problem is - it looks like once the networkmanager is started, the network goes away! So, the resolved IP address at boot time (which happens before rc.networkmanager is called i think) somehow gets screwed up later and nothing works. Only way for me to make it work right now is I have stop networkmanager, re-enable wlan0 and use
I have read articles about wicd and rc.inet1 having trouble when both have values (due to "power struggle"). Is something similar an issue with using networkmanager too? If so, how I can change my settings to be able to use NM? Note that currently my wifi settings are specified in wpa_supplicant.conf and rc.inet1.conf.

Please advice.

Try booting with the Slackware default, unconfigured rc.inet1.conf and then configuring your connections from within nm-applet.

I suggest maintaining your connection information for wpa_supplicant as you can use this from the command line. It does not cause any problems on my netbook.

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That was the problem indeed!

In the process of debuggging the wifi (the problem was basically the bcm wifi drivers), I ended up adding stuff to rc.inet1.conf in an attempt to replicate my earlier settings with 13.37.

Thanks a lot! :-)