Airport/iBook/YDL3.0 problems

[Jon Atkinson]

Thanks for the reply, but I still have a few problems:

1) I need to use neat. I use it to switch on and off my wired connection,
and hence it's pretty much indespensible. A hardware change shouldn't make
it stop working. I've filed the relevant bug with RedHat, should I file it
with YellowDog (considering it's a RedHat tool, but I'm running YD?)

2) The connection is still broken. /sbin/ifconfig lists eth1 as dropping
packets, and I can't ping my server box. Yes, I do have a standard Airport
card; my iBook doesn't support an Airport Extreme card. I've never used
iwconfig before, and I'd much rather use the built-in neat tool.

Surely someone must have had thi problem before and fixed it (there must
be loads of iBook/Airport combinations out there running YDL).

Cheers,

--Jon

>
> Hi.
>
> At 17:17 +0100 on 2003-5-15 Jon Atkinson wrote:
>  >
>  > tried to run neat to fix the problem. neat fails to start with the
> message:
>  >
>  > "Warning: Device eth1 has been compiled with version 14 of Wireless
> Extension, while we are using version 12. Some things may be
> broken..."
>  >
>  > followed by a gui window with some Python errors which I guess is a
> symptom of the above problem.
>
> It is not, the card should work fine despite the warning.  I have seen
> this message countless times (until I grew bored and decided to
> recompile the wireless-tools package) without any apparent detrimental
> effect on functionality.
>
> The culprit seems to be the GUI configurator (the only thing that uses
> Python I believe).  Have you tried to configure the card using
> iwconfig directly?  This is what I do and everything works quite
> nicely (it also talks fine with a rather diverse collection of
> wireless cards on my home network).
>
> I also assume you have an Airport card (as opposed to Airport Extreme
> which will not work yet under Linux).
>
> Stefan
>
> --
> If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as
> it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
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