Wi-Fi, Linux and Laptops

[StanleyC]

Hello,

Im just looking for any words of wisdom anyone with any experience of these things may have to offer.

Im getting a new laptop tommorow which i would like to run slackware on, ive got a couple of linux boxes so am not worried about installing slack on this thing but im a little miffed with how im going to be able to hook the wi-fi thing into it. The laptop will be a dell 510m which comes with dells own truemobile wireless card, im about 90% sure there are no nix drivers for this card.

If anyone has a linux laptop which they have got wi-fi working on would you mind giving me a couple of hints as im a little stuck as to where to start. How would you control what network you are connected to ? Has something already been developed to control things like this or is it a case of directly configuring the card to the network each time from something like ifconfig ?

Anyway if anyone can spare 2 minutes with a couple of pointers I would appreciate it.

Thanks in Advance.

Stan

[Waldo2k2]

don't kernels 2.4x and up support zeroconf?

[Bajanine]

I found this yesterday, hope it helps
http://www.linuxant.com/company/

[Waldo2k2]

<rant>linuxant blows, I hate it when somebody makes you pay for linux drivers...they're freaking drivers!!!</rant>

[Bajanine]

Sorry, I meant to post this site: LINK

[Waldo2k2]

yeah that would work

[StanleyC]

Thanks Bajanine thats a great article and has seemed to answer all my questions.

Cheers

Stan