Hi, I just patched my kernel to be able to locate my wireless card, and now it seems that every time I run the switchto script, 1) Mozilla freezes after loading up only one page (all other internet related programs work fine), and 2) When I try to log off gnome, it freezes and doesn't shut down, forcing me to ctrl-c it. Is there a better way to shut it down? Also, any ideas on my problem? Thanks in advance.

what is switchto?
which slackware are you using?
which wireless card?
does the driver for you wireless card require kernel patches?

2 is probably caused by 1.
ctrl-alt-backspace will exit x.

???, no real help from me yet, but I'm suspicious of your wireless.

switchto is a program that allows me to switch between wireless, my lan, etc (I think it's basically an interface to the iw* tools)

I'm using the latest version of slackware (9.0? 9.1 - what's teh command to check again?)

My wireless card is a built in LAN-Express 802.11b, and it uses a patched version of the orinoco_pci driver (I had to patch the orinoco_pci.c file myself, and then recompile the kernel)

Also, I let it run for like 10 minutes, and it did eventually end up asking me if I wanted to log off.....I guess that means it's trying to shut something down (which is taking a long time) in the logoff process? Is there a way I can check exactly what it's trying to do, and then kill it before?

What kernelversion "/sbin/kernelversion" are you currently using?

I get this freeze problem on both 2.4.20 and 2.4.22.

cat /etc/slackware-version, uname -a is also informative.

Sorry, don't know anything about that wireless card, if it's prism2/2.5/3 chipset
you could try hostap or linux-wlan drivers.

The thing is the card has it's driver detected! That's what's weird about it; eth1 just doesn't just up.