Next issue: airport

[Harvey Ussery]

Good luck, Ian--config'g Airport when I first installed YDL was a 
nightmare! But it seems that if you have the airport (and hermes) 
modules loaded & recognized, you're pretty close. When I was at the same 
stage in a Gentoo installation coupla days ago, it was sufficient just to

dhcpcd eth1
and then
ifconfig eth1

The output of the latter included UP and RUNNING--the magic words. I'm 
not up with Mozilla or anything yet, but when I pointed lynx to a URL, 
away I went.

One other thing occurs to me. In retrospect, I've concluded that my 
basic config was complete & usable a >long< time before I realized it. 
That is, everything was ready to connect thru Airport, except that for 
some reason I couldn't turn Airport itself on from within YDL. (For that 
matter, I still can't, and have been too much involved with other issues 
to try to work that one out. My iMac & my wife's iBook share the 
connection thru the Airport base station; and I still bring the 
connection up & turn it off from the iBook--I can't do that from inside 
YDL for some reason.) So: Is Airport already on or off when you start 
trying to make the connection? If off, is there any way you can get the 
connection thru Airport up independently? if not from another computer 
as in my case, by booting into the Mac side first (if you dual boot), 
bringing up & leaving on the connection while you reboot into YDL?

Sorry if this is wide of the mark or irrelevant to your case; but if 
someone had told me early on what I wrote above, it wd have saved me a 
lot of grief.    Good luck.    --Harvey

Ian Marlier wrote:

>Next issue: I'm connected to the net via an AirPort, but I can't seem to
>convince my machine to actually get it's act together on this...
>
>I do:
>Modprobe airport
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>And the airport, orinoco, and hermes modules are loaded into the kernel.
>
>I do:
>Iwconfig eth1 essid "<network>" enc xxxxxxxxx
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>And the report back is that the device doesn't exist
>
>I added a /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1, but I get the feeling
>that this method might be depreciated in the 2.6 kernel?
>
>Anyway, help would be greatly appreciated...what do I need to do to get my
>system to recognize my airport card?
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