Subject: Re: (Revisiting) Using airport- doesn't anyone know?
From: Brice D Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Fri Jun 22 2001 - 11:14:37 MDT
Just a quick status - I'm basically entrenched trying to get a 2.4
kernel that I like ... I can boot kfukui's 2.4.6-pre3_D0a kernel, but
MOL doesn't compile against it (for reasons outlined in a previous
post). I grabbed the bitkeeper 2.4 kernel, but I can't boot with it. I
get dumped to Open Firmware whenever I try.
So - I think I need to just hold off for a bit and let things settle
down a bit, and then go at this again.
Brice
William K. Gibson wrote:
>on 6/19/01 5:46 PM, Brice D Ruth at brice@webprojkt.com wrote:
>
>>Just to refresh my memory, what hardware are you running and what distribution
>>are you running? As many details (however insignificant they may seem) as you
>>can provide will help.
>>
>
>Ok, thanks.
>
>I'm using a Titanium powerbook. Originally I started with YDL 1.2 but I
>upgraded to ben's kernel (Linux PPC 2.4.5) in order to take advantage of
>airport and other items. I compiled the kernel myself and tried my darndest
>to include all the options I would need - including legacy tap0 stuff and
>legacy ipchains. Well, ipchains refuses to work in spite of this so I
>switched to iptables anyway. Most of the options came with help, except for
>the airport, which did not. I still don't understand why the airport module
>comes up as eth1 instead of airport.
>
>Again, I'm using the Base Station as a router to my little private network.
>The Base Station itself connects through DHCP to a cable modem.
>
>Here is an interesting tidbit though. When ifconfig brings up both eth0 and
>eth1 and I ping a site- the ping travels from the eth0 interface in spite of
>the fact that I have set eth1 as the gateway device. I verified this by
>setting eth0 and eth1 to two seperate IP addresses and also unplugging the
>ethernet cable from the machine. If I call 'ifconfig eth0 down' and then
>ping, it uses the eth1 interface. Weird- but maybe its just how ping works?
>
>
>
>--William K. Gibson
>1stDesk Systems
>firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
>
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