assign an IP to wireless pci card. preferably via DHCP

[pingüino 0]

Hi

Im running slack 9.1 and trying to connect to my netgear router via the netgear wg311 wireless card. I can get the card up and bind it with the router. Problem is, i cant give it an IP

 

this command always report a 'host lookup failure'

Code:

ifconfig ath0 net 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

 

'ifconfig ath0 address 192.168.0.1' errors the same . .

 

and

Code:

dhclient ath0 

 

always reports that it doesn't know any component ath0.

 

Has anyone got any ideas to help me get further please. I think this can only work if the router to gives me the address via dhcp. I feel like im nearly there now . .