I've installed namecoind, created a bitcoin.conf with user and pwd, started the daemon which downloaded all blocks, then retrieved my address and entered it into the mining.bitcoin.cz account.
Is there anything else I must do to start the namecoin mining?
What is the username and password for?
Apparently slush's pool no longer supports merged mining according to "fourd00rgtz"?
See this post:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1976.msg1764838#msg1764838Try this pool for stratum based merged mining:
http://mmpool.bitparking.com/poolAt namecoin's current difficulty level (seen here:
http://dot-bit.org/tools/nextDifficulty.php ) it is going to be a long time until you mine a namecoin block going it alone unless you have an ASIC handy.