YDL with linksys ...

[Beartooth]

TonyK replied to my rant: 

> "This topic covers the configuration of Apple brand AirPort 802.11b
> wireless cards."

> I would assume you are using an Apple wireless card in your iBook, if
> not, I cannot tell from your post.  This "How To" is what I used to
> get my iBook working with my Linksys wireless router.  I would suggest
> reading it thoroughly.  And then send your specific questions to the
> list.

> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/airport24.shtml

	I had both the wireless card and the wireless hub from apple 
before, both running fine; I still have the same card, but a new linksys 
router instead of the apple hub; it is true that I find Apple's names 
for things, here as in so many places, grossly and gratuitously 
confusing. 

	I have not only read the confounded site thoroughly -- 
several times -- and printed it -- and worked through it --again several 
times -- line by line, with either the printout or the site on another 
machine in front of me. I am doing so now for the umpteenth time.

	The second line (already!) fails in two ways I have no idea how 
to deal with. It tells me to run netconfig if I haven't. Of course I 
have -- it was configured in Vienna, blast it! -- but I run it anyway. 
It asks me whether to configure eth0 or eth1, with no faintest hint how 
to tell. I try eth0. It asks three alternatives. Again I guess, and tell 
it dhcp. Then it gives me an error box saying "A dhcp server did not 
respond. TCP/IP was not configured."

	None of that happened with the apple hub, btw.

	I try again, with eth1 this time. Same result.

	Incidentally, after each failure I get a line on my root 
terminal saying INSTALL_BACK.

> If I remember, your initial questions were... "YDL with linksys
> wireless router?" and "Has anybody made them play nice together?"  I
> think I answered it.

	As I tried to say yesterday, perhaps at too great length, Tony 
did indeed (twice now) answer what I asked -- instead of what I'm trying 
to ask ... (Maybe we should get a medium to ask Alan Turing about Tony! 
<joke>)

	Did no error message that I put into my rant tell anyone 
anything? There *were* a lot of specifics in there, along with the 
ranting ...

-- 
Beartooth the Stubborn <karhunhammas (at) lserv.com>
Double Retiree, Neo-Redneck, Linuxer's Apprentice
Alive & Well & Escaped to Appalachia At Last!