I have 2 network cards on my server machine. One wired and one wireless. Ideally once the wireless comes up on boot I can shove this thing in the garage or something and not have to worry about wires. I can't seem to get the wireless interface (ath0) to come up on boot. Once it boots up I ssh into the wired nic and execute a "ifconfig ath0". After this all is well as it uses the settings from /etc/rc.conf (which is as follows)

defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
hostname="Freebsd.Linux.org"
ifconfig_ath0="inet 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid speedzone"
ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.201 netmask 255.255.255.0"
linux_enable="YES"
sshd_enable="YES"
usbd_enable="YES"

Yes this is a FreeBSD system but after scouring their forums I couldn't find a fix that worked for me. I tried adding a script to rc.d that would just execute "ifconfig ath0" on boot, but it didn't work. I'm sure this is extrememly simple. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

We do things differently in Slackware than in BSD, but if I
understand you ...

First recommendation is keep the wire on the server, but it
is your PC, right?

Second is, if you want to learn how we do it in Slackware,
then checkout Eric Hameleer's pages here and here.

The second link explains how Slackware uses scripts to run
networking, and the first one how to build MadWifi for Slack.

Peace, and happy hunting, paleface!