YDL & router [cont.]

[Spliced Networks]

On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Beartooth wrote:

okay, lo is loopback, its not your wireless card.
eth0 is probably the built-in ethernet on your iBook.
so eth1 should be your airport card.

do you have encryption enabled? if you do, i'd recommend you switch it
off on the router (WEP off) then do the same thing you did to get
the output below and you should see values in the access point mac address 
(the all zeros below). 



> 	It shows "no wireless extensions" and nothing elsr for both lo
> and eth0. Then before eth1 -- this is *after* I shortened it back -- it
> says "Warning : Device eth1 has been compiled with version 13 of
> Wireless Extension, while we are using version 12. Some things may be
> broken ..."
> 
> 	Then it says (with some blank lines thrown in by me:
>  
> =============== 
> 
> eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"xxxxxxx"  [my SSID, that I gave the router,
> with quotes] Nickname:  "HERMES I" [no idea where it got that]
>         
>  Mode:Managed   Frequency:2.422GHz  Access Point: 
> 00:00:00:00:00:00 [it *is* all zeroes; I'm not changing that]
> 
> Bit Rate:11Mb/s    Tx-Power=15 dBm  Sensitivity:1/3
> 
> Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
> 
> Encryption key:xxxx-xxxx-xx
> 
> Power Management:off
> 
> =========================
> 
> > If it doesn't then, you should check your SSID, and make sure you have
> > WEP turned off on the access point. You may also have to manually set
> > the channel.
> 
> 	I've tried doing the iwconfig line both with and without the "" 
> around my SSID (though not, I think, rebooting each time), and that has 
> not helped.
> 
> 	I did go into the router's configuration and make sure WEP was 
> disabled; and rebooted YDL.
> 
> 	Btw, I notice that it brings up lo, eth0, and ppp1 but not eth1 
> on boot; but it shuts eth1 down on shutdown.
> 
> 	And I'm still not connecting, even though RH 8 over cable to a 
> live port, and OSX wirelessly on the ibook, do both connect now through 
> this linksys router.
> 
> 	Also you're dead right: much of the problem is user-induced. 
> 
> 	Otoh, all through the two months till I got to the discovery of
> hardware failure (this is still the router with the two dead ports), I
> had lots of help online -- from Novalug and various individual hotshots,
> who also tried hard and got not much of anywhere, walking me through
> attempts -- with things other than YDL. I've held off trying to connect
> that here, because I dared not risk my functioning connection on the
> other end so long as the ibook was going back and forth.
> 
>