Configuring slackware for a wireless device.

[dan Murphy]

Well after upgrading to slackware 12, I wimped out and bought a cable, 
but thanks for the tips.  I still may try it and see.
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, 
Steve Holmes wrote:

> Also, on my Slackware laptop with wireless PCMCIA card, my device
> comes up as eth0 because of the wireless package I have installed.
> With Slackware 12 and udev support, it just seemed to work now.
> Before, while using Slackware 10.2 and 11.0 and still some left over
> hotplug configs, I messed with PCMCIA card services but in any case, I
> opened up the atmel chipset in rc.wireless.conf (I think that's the
> name) and now it loads the correct modules when I plug in the card.
> It comes up as eth0 and I can use iwconfig to see the device and use
> iwconfig to set essid and similar things.  iwlist is also a command
> which can reveal additional information about the wireless situation
> in your box.
>
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:07:10PM +0100, Georgina Joyce wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> Well I did a quick google and found this:
>>
>> http://osdir.com/ml/linux.drivers.atmel-wlan/2003-02/msg00047.html
>>
>> Just put linux in the edit field then the device details then support.  A better way would be to issue at the command prompt:
>>
>> $ lsusb
>>
>> For USB devices and for PCI devices:
>>
>> $ lspci
>>
>> For modules that are loaded:
>>
>> $ lsmod
>>
>> Then ask google for the linux support for that chipset as the same brand and model number doesn't necessarily mean the same chipset and it is the chipset to which the driver needs to communicate.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Gena
>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Dan Murphy
>> Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 8:15 PM
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>> Subject: Configuring slackware for a wireless device.
>>
>>
>> Hi all.
>> I recently installed a Linksys Wusb 11 E wireless card on my old dual boot
>> 200 MHZ Pentium.  It has Slackware 11.0 kernel version 2.4.33.3 and Windows
>> 98.  I got the card working on the windows side, but how would I go about
>> configuring it for the Slackware side.  It is a Usb device, and I have a zip
>> drive which is also Usb running under slackware, but I don't know the first
>> step to getting Slackware to find it.
>> Where should I be looking in the man pages, or is there a utility in Linux
>> that I'm not familiar with?
>> Help would be appreciated, since the machine only has 140 MB of ram, so when
>> I run Windows on it, it's rather slow.
>> Thanks.
>>
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