Linuxseekers

As for my ipw2100 wifi adapter, i needed to download the firmware from

here first,  then only unpacked it into /lib/firmware subdirectory.  This is

where Zenwalk lost to Xubuntu 6.10. Wifi-radar is provided for you to con-

figure your wifi needs.  Btw, ndiswrapper is also included in Zenwalk 4.4.1.

Honestly, I never had luck with wifi radar whenever i attempted to use the

WPA-PSK encryption protocol.   I would be very ecstatic if the developers

Zenwalk decide to replace wifi-radar with networkmanager. I suppose this

is the best time for me to voice out this request as GCC4.1.2 and glibc2.5

for Slackware will be out soon.

In order to use WPA-PSK, below are the things that you may need to do

from CLI :-

i)  Insert this line into /etc/modprobe.conf file :-   alias eth1 ipw2100

ii) Create /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf  file and then insert this block

    of codes :-

                     ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant

                     network={

                                   ssid="your_ssid_here"

                                   proto=WPA

                                   key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

                                   psk="your_passphrase_here"

                                  }

iii) execute   wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext  -ieth1  -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

iv) execute   dhcpcd -d -t 20 eth1

The access point that i used in this case was a U.S Robotics Wireless MAXg

Router which is also WPA2 capable.