Hello

This may not be the exact forum (sorry in advance). Currently, I'm running Slackware 10 on a Asus Terminator DDR system (SiS chipset). I've got Broadband (Pipex - living in the UK) but I want to outfit my system and/or house with a wireless system. Has anyone on here had any success with Slackware and wireless kit? If so, which cards (PCI) and wireless ADSL router works good on Slackware 10 (54mb system)?

Ben

We have a WLAN system in our university which works fine with my laptop running Slackware 10. I'm using a Orinoco card with a Siemens C1020 laptop, I can't tell you anything about the router though since it's a massive network spanning several kilometres. Slack detected my card automatically so I didn't have to do anything, just plugged it in and everything was dandy (i'm guessing it's the PCMCIA module which does all the work). Since sales people tend to know nothing about Linux compability I'd just buy the system and try it out. If it doesn't work you can always return it.

Like Plice said, orinoco cards seem to work best right out of the box. I've had both D-Link DWL G-650 (atheros?) and Linksys WPC54G (broadcom) pcmcia cards (both 54g) running on slack 10--albeit both with ndiswrapper 0.10. I coulnd't find any drivers for the cards, but ndiswrapper has been working flawlessly with the windows drivers provided with the cards, so might as well use it. Once the card is working, it's just a matter of configuring it for your particular network--pretty straightforward with the wireless-tools package. And you should be fine with any wireless router. There's a ton of info in the wireless networking forum.

Ironically enough, I've had good luck with a microsoft MN-520 pcmcia card on my Slack 10.0 laptop and the MN-5** router. The card works with the orinoco driver. But then who wants to give more money to Bill. I bought the stuff B.L. (before linux).
-geomatt

I have Slack 10.0 on my Toshiba 4080XCDT with a Linksys 802.11G (WP11 or orinoco.o module) and I connect to my own Linksys 802.11G router and a Cisco wireless router at the office, never had a problem I couldn't fix.

I'm not using the Windows drivers.. to hell with M$.

I even updated my kernel to 2.6.81 and the only problem I had was that I forgot to add the PCMCIA driver as well as the wireless PCMCIA driver .. once I reompiled it.. boom.. it worked..

So with 2 different wireless routers my WP11 works great.

Thanks for the info. Although I have a laptop that I will be putting slackware on at some point, it's my mini ATX system that I want to put on a wireless system (PCI nic). So, has anyone had any luck with wireless pci nic's on Slackware?

Ben

if you don't find a supported card you can use the open source ndiswrapper or the commercial linuxant driverloader.

I have a D-Link DWL-G520 54g pci card working with ndiswrapper 0.10 on slack 10.

I have netgear 802.11G 108mbps card for my desktop. Oddly, the card kept crashing on windows, but it worked fine in linux after i downloaded the madwifi atheros drivers. I get no lockups in linux like my brother does in windows.

My rundown on MA311 how to:
MA311 and linksys router

The wireless FORUM:
here

Thanks for the info. I had been eyeing up a D-Link box and a Netgear box at PC World for some time now. I guess I'll get one when I get back off of holiday in a few weeks. The kids will be glad!

Ben

The Linksys WRT54G is what I have and I highly recommend it.
4 port 10/100 with 802/11G (54Mb) wireless and it's got a 200mhz RISC processor with 16megs of flash.

I've upgraded it to run a sort of linux so now I can telnet into my router instead of going via IE/Mozilla.

http://www.batbox.org/wrt54g-linux.html

sweet !!!