I'm trying to set up my wpc11 v4 on Slackware 8.1. I would have posted this as a reply to the WPC11 Version 4 thread, but I thought it was more general than that thread. Anyway:

What exactly creates the wlan0 definition? In trying to set up my wpc11 v4 in Slack9 I had installed wlan-ng and wireless-tools plus the rtl8180 drivers and pcmcia-cs, but I never figured out which step created the wlan0 definition. Never could get it to work, so I started fresh and installed Slack8.1 which seems to have wireless-tools out of the box (i can run iwpriv/iwconfig). I know I don't need the wlan-ng drivers, because those are for the v3 and below, correct? So where can I define a wlan0 so my iwpriv wlan0 statements will work and my driver will insmod? Can I do it by hand? I don't want to have to install something just for this. Kind of a purist and don't like having thigs I don't need.

Thanks!