Wireless on Slackware 12.1 with KDE 3.59

[nathan5603]

I have a T 41 with the Cisco WIFI B card on board. I have installed Slackware 12.1 with KDE 3.59 and don't know how to connect to a WIFI network properly. I've tried using KWIFImanager, but I cannot successfully connect to WIFI networks. What is the best program to use in KDE 3.59 to connect to WIFI networks?

Thanks in advance,

Nathan

[tarvoke]

never tried kwifimanager, but knetworkmanager has always worked great for me (plus it lets you switch between wireless and wired very easily)

[Davemci]

I've only used Kwifimanger to monitor signal strength preferring to use shell commands to configure the wifi card. Does kwifimanager auto detect your card? A little more detail about the problem would help. Is it a problem logging in with WEP security or a card configuration problem? Knetworkmanager isn't in the Slackware distro as far as I know.

[lightweight]

Ensure your card is supported in Linux (it may be via ndiswrapper, which, with varying degrees of success, allows you to manipulate MS Windows drivers for use with Linux). You can do this by running the following, taking the output, and searching for it at google.com/linux

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lspci |egrep -i "cisco|aironet"

As you may guess, easiest would be to use your ethernet interface/eth0 while configuring the wireless interface, should you need to build or grab gcc/make/etc.