iago, anyone else...

[Krazed]

Does anyone have linux on a laptop that has wireless networking? I wanna figure out how to be able to use my wireless internet with linux.

[iago]

Yes, I have two laptops with wireless networking. 

If it's a PCMCIA card (those little credit-card sized ones), make sure that /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia has execute permission (chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia). 

If you run "ifconfig -a", does it list a card that's not your wired card?  If not, you need a driver.

If it's a Centrino system, you'll need the ipw2200 drivers, which can be found at http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net.  If that's not what you have, then you're on your own finding drivers. 

You use iwconfig to configure your card on Linux (ifconfig does it on BSD, fyi).  It comes with the wireless-tools package in Slackware.  You can see/use my configuration file here:
http://www.javaop.com/~iago/home-wireless.sh

I personally prefer manually running that every time I restart.  If you would prefer not to, you can look into playing with /etc/rc.d/rc.wireless (which also comes with wireless-tools).  I personally don't use rc.wireless or rc.inet, though. 

Hope that helps. 

[Joe]

Wild stab in the dark.. you have all that memorized?

[iago]

Yes.  It's all pretty common sense once you've done it a few times.  There isn't really a lot of information there.