Ok I'm trying to get a wpc11 to work on a dell laptop with slackware 11. I've got all the wireless tools and from what I've been able to find it's either a prism chipset or the realtek chipset, however not sure which one to use now tried the prism and doesn't detect the hardware so I'll have to give it a go with other choices, can anyone tell me if it is the realtek and if there is a precompiled version of it for slackware or what as I already have used two weeks trying to do this.

Running "lspci" while the card is plugged in should tell you what chipset you are using. Or at the very least, give you a model and revision number so you can verify what it is using with Google.

Ok so I found some realtek drivers patched for the 2.6 kernel (can't remember the site anymore) anyways, I have to manually load the drivers modules on each login which is a pain, How do I go about having them auto load on startup?

EDIT: I have to load the modules, ifconfig wlan0 up, iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys, then the network wep key, I'd like to not have to cd to the build directory. load the modules and then go through all that not to mention use the wireless assistant to connect each time after all that, however I'm happy to post this on the laptop using the linksys card, and native at that instead of ndiswrapper!

Go into the build directory for the modules, and run the following as root:

That will copy all of the modules that were built to where the kernel can access them, and then update the kernel's list of modules so that it becomes aware of them.

Ok quick question where is the directory to where they are copied over to as I have 3 more machines to put this on which require freshinstalls away from windows and I'd like to make my life a little easier by just having it setup with the rest of the system modules.