for wireless do a search for 3945 in the forum, seems this has been discussed several times. i think your answer is here
http://forum.slitaz.org/index.php/discussion/comment/2963/#Comment_2963

As for the time it takes for package manager this used to drive me crazy at the beginning but i got used to it (and quite frankly, eg synaptics is driving me crazy this way too)

If you've ever used Synaptic or Ubuntu Software manager, then you'd be used to this delay with packages. As with the above two, I ended up using the command line - same with SliTaz. Just go to terminal and type tazpkg search and it will find most of the packages you maybe looking for, then just su to root and type tazpkg get-install package name (don't include the version number in the packages name so sdl-1.2 becomes just sdl). It's way faster like this.

Also to search desciptions, I just ended up using http://pkgs.slitaz.org/ to find the package names.

The reason i mentioned abt slow speed is w.r.t distro size. Yes i use Synaptic quite heavily but for the size of Debian OS synaptic is really fast. And that's why i was quite surprised with slitaz pkg mgr since it seemed to be quite slow compared to the OS size. Maybe i'm mistaken but just wanted to check.

Slitaz is however an unbelievable & exceptional OS. Wish it had KDE and themes support like in KDE/Gnome in order to make it look better (though this has not much value :-) ). I did find themes but not too the extent like in KDE. Anyway no complaints there as you could cram in so much in 30 MB :-)

Sorry Christophe, forgot to thank you earlier for the link that u gave for wireless. Really appreciate it :-)

You are wellcome
Can you tell me how you have changed the themes ?
i am still looking how to do that...

Well murali, it does have basic support for GTK+ 1 and 2 themes. I'm using one now called Murrine Dark Brave - I found it in the repository under murrine-svn-themes which comes with quite a few themes. There are a couple of others in there too including xfce's themes and icon set. Just try tazpkg search theme to check them out.

Emulation isn't perfect though, because it works a little weird in PCmanfm, (It uses the desktop changer colour for selection, so I get a red square instead the blue I get on the desktop). I'm also using a custom Onyx theme with OpenBox, so the look I have going is pretty dark, but cool. Don't expect it to support themes with custom images for items like SlicknessBlack - it only supports the colouring with HTML notation - not the images.

@ Christophe - you can add custom themes to your /usr/share/themes directory and custom icon sets (not all work though) and cursors in /usr/share/icons

EDIT: On further investigation, I discovered you can't use xfce's themes - it installs the whole xfce interface and it's kind of a pain to remove them... So that only leaves clearlooks, murrine and slitaz-violet as the real themes in the repository.

TXar: not sure i understand here.
My main issue really is with icons, when i do not like them (or because they are missing, eg pidgin does not have an icon in the task bar but it does with crunchbang (since you are a crunchbang user); it has been a pain to locate that icon on crunchbang then put it on slitaz.... but i did it in that case. I have not always been successful.

Now I would like a better solution than the guess-and-try method :s