airport problem

[Greg Hamilton]

To connect to the base station:

/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid "your_network_name" enc your_wep_key_goes_here

Using the OSX Airport Admin the network name is fairly obviously 
labelled as 'AirPort Network Name:' and the WEP key is displayed by 
selecting 'Equivalent Network Password' from the 'Base Station' menu.


/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.0.255

Replace 192.168.0.255 with the ip address of your base station.

I add both these commands to /etc/rc.local so that they are executed 
when Linux boots. Worked fine with YDL2.3 and YDL3.0.

If you're using the base station as a DHCP server you'll have to tweak 
this config a bit, though I'm pretty sure I've read a few accounts of 
people having no luck getting such a configuration to work so you might 
want to think about using static IPs instead. Can't think where I read 
that now. Hmmmm. Probably not true at all.

Good Luck

Greg Hamilton


On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 07:57  AM, Jeff Burton wrote:

>
> I'm running YDL 2.3 and set up airport using the support doc on the 
> YDL site.
> it's on a 99 ibook.
>
> i am using OSX 10.2's version of a software base station.
> (internet sharing)
>
> when I
>
> /sbin/ifup eth1, IP information is determined fine and a
> netstat -rn
> shows that eth1 is indeed up and running.
>
> However, when I try to connect to a website with mozilla or konquerer 
> i get nothing...
>
> If i use ncftp I can connect to ftp servers, but once connected I 
> can't  view the files.. an ls boots me out... I get "remote host was 
> not responding, closing down the session" when i try to enter another 
> ls into the prompt in ncftp.
>
>
> I had a similar problem when using eth0 on a static IP but that 
> mysteriously solved itself....
>
> The thing that I really don't get is that I did this a year ago on the 
> same machine, also with YDL 2.3.  this is just a recent clean 
> install...(I can't get YDL3 to go on this ibook...)
>
> help!
>
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