I just switched from cable internet to dsl (at&t) and didn't think about getting any wireless drivers before switching.

I have a D-link DI-524 wireless router hooked up to my Mini Mac and using a DWL-510 wireless nic in my PC tower system. Using Slack 12 with default kernel. Everything works without problems on Debian Sid.

I was able to get and install the madwife drivers and to me, everything seems to be installed correctly, but I'm not able to connect to a website or ping a site using IP address or the name. Error comes back showing 'Host not available'.

Any ideas on fixing this?

are you sure you have set up dhcp to get an ip adress?
if so, you should see a nameserver entry in /etc/resolf.conf

if not, try running netconfig (as root)

Wireless does not by default request an IP. You can change that behavior by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf to allow eth1 to use dhcp.

First confirm that your card is found by running at the commandline

You should see something that looks like your card, usually on eth1. If not, no driver is installed.

Next run as root

You should see eth1 but without an valid IP. A vaild IP would look something like this:

At this point you could run as root

each time you want to use wireless or edit /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf to allow eth1 to use dhcp by changing

to

Now eth1 will get an address each time the network starts.

You can monitor your connection with kwifimanager.

dennisk

When I used cable internet, /etc/resolv.conf had the cable info in it. I ran 'netconfig' and for domain name, added dsl, att.net. Is this correct to add att.net for domain? Also, if I remember correctly, it had an IP address but now no IP address is showing, only att.net.

When I ran /sbin/iwconfig, I see info for ath0 but it show no wireless extension for eth0 and no extension for lo.

Kwifinetwork show the wireless card as active, with green bars in the system tray.

When I type lsmod, I see the driver installed, ath_pci.

I appreciate the help. Any more suggestions?

Ok, typing this I get:

If I type this, it's working:

So, adding 'yes to Use DHCP' in file /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf does nothing.

It seems mine has ath0 instead of eth1, but I thought eth is for wired nics and ath for wireless nics.

Now all I need to know is where to add 'dhcpcd ath0 up' to start automagically?

Thnx.

/etc/rc.d/rc.local is the file you're looking for

Thanks to all. I'm up and running wirelessly...this is what I like about Slackware & Debian, the so-called hard distros, they're the easiest to use of all distros, IMHO!

I'm having dependency hell with Fedora getting wifi working, but will work on it.

Thnx.

Hi,

You could look at Alien_Bob's wiki for Slackware and using the Atheros Madwifi.

Eric has done a great job to assist you with problems of this sort. You should look in the configuration section. He has covered the '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf' file very well. The wiki is based on Slackware 10.2 but applicable to 12 as a guide.

OK ok got the hint :-)
I did an update of the page, adding some new info, deleting some old cruft.

Especially worth noting for Slackware 12.0 users is that you can use the Slackware 12.0 wpa_supplicant package without modification with my madwifi package. Starting with kernel 2.6.14, the "wext" driver of wpa_supplicant can be used to let madwifi and wpa_supplicant communicate.

Eric