I am having some trouble configuring a newly acquired belkin wireless network card. I have it working but it is a kludge and I don't know why it works so I would like some advice.
I have sorted the kernel module (rt2500.o) and I have added modprobe wlan0 to the end of rc.modules tp load it. It loads ok and I can ifconfig to my heart's content but it won't connect to my wireless router. I ran netconfig to set up dhcp but the client dhcpcd does not seem to get run. Running from the console does nothing but await the timeout.
route shows just the local loopback.
However, by accident I discovered that if I ran kwifi and configured the card to look for my router in infrastructure mode, then if I run dhcpcd wlan0 everything works. route shows that dhcp has made the necessary connections.
OK I can do this manually every time but I don't understand what it is that kwifi is doing. Obviously there is a step I am missing somewhere. Can anyone help?
I am running Slackare 10.1
Cheers
Ian