Hi, I've got my wireless driver installed (orinoco.cs), and I can connect to my network at home where I can set my ip address, but I was wondering how to get DHCP configured (I think that's what I need to do?) to be able to connect to my wireless network at school......the only information I have on that is the essid, and the fact that no WEP is needed. Thanks so much!

Do you have iwconfig? If yes, type 'man iwconfig' which will give you details on how to setup your eth device to use a specific essid network.
As for DHCP, getting an IP allocated by the server should be as easy as typing 'dhcpcd ethX' with ethX is your wireless network adapter.
I am not on my linux computer at the moment so can't give you more info but post if you still have trouble and I will see what I can do later today..
Hope it helps.
L

The only problem for me is that when i type 'dhcpd eth1', it gives me this printout:

Wrote 0 leases to leases file.

No subnet declaration for eth1 (192.168.2.10).
** Ignoring requests on eth1. If this is not what
you want, please write a subnet declaration
in your dhcpd.conf file for the network segment
to which interface eth1 is attached. **


Not configured to listen on any interfaces!

It just seems to me that everywhere I've looked to find information on configuring my dhcpd.conf file, I would need to know a lot more information about the network than the ssid. Maybe I'm looking at this wrong?

I need to check on my box but dhcpd and dhcpcd are 2 different commands as far as I remember... Try the second one! I will take a look tonight.
L

did you put dhcp=yes in your /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf file ?

Wow, that was it! I was using dhcpd instead of dhcpcd. Thanks ; )

I thought it was yes! Glad it helped!
L

I thought it was yes! Glad it helped!
L

When I type "dhcpcd wlan0", it just says "dhcpcd: command not found"

Is this because I dont have something installed, or do I mabee have to turn on dhcp in my rc.inet1.conf in order for this command to work.

You need to run dhcpcd a root.

I did run it as root, I got those errors when trying the command "dhcpcd" as root.

Hmmm.....maybe you don't have it installed then. Check if it's in your /sbin directory. I don't think it would be a problem of whether you've got it initialized in rc.init1....

ok i did a search of my entire hard drive and there isnt any file by the name of dhcpcd

what is the name of the package that comes with dhcpcd?

Try installing it from your slackware 9.1 cd (it should be in the 'n' software set). The package name is dhcpcd-1.3.22p14-i386-1.tgz, or something of the sort.