Airport/iBook/YDL3.0 problems

[Jon Atkinson]

Okay, /sbin/iwconfig eth1 gives the following output:

IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode: Managed Frequency:2.422Ghz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate: 2mb/s Tx-Power=15dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managment: off
Link Quality:0/92 signal level:134/153 noise level:134/153
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

Compared to my x86 laptop which also uses a wireless connection, which
gives the following:

IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"Wireless"  Nickname:"dante"
Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 00:30:AB:22:7C:4D
Bit Rate=11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:40/92  Signal level:-72 dBm  Noise level:-144 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:8  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I guess my mission here is to replicate the x86 config on my iBook. Like I
said, I haven't used much iwconfig, and RH9 on the x86 just figured this
all out automagically.

/sbin/route -n on the iBook is:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination  Gateway  Genmask    Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
127.0.0.0    0.0.0.0  255.0.0.0  U     0      0   0   lo

While my working x86 gives:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth1
172.16.249.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
vmnet8
192.168.26.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0
vmnet1
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth1
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.0.1     0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth1

(yeah, I know the vmware specific stuff is irrelevant. eth1 is my wireless
card on the x86)

Cheers for the help.

--Jon



> At 18:12 +0100 on 2003-5-15 Jon Atkinson wrote:
>  >
>  > 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.
>
> OK, but do it once at least to see the status of your wireless
> connection.  Do
>
>     /sbin/iwconfig eth1
>
> What does it say?  Does the information in there match the
> characteristics of your network?  How about routes, are they set
> properly?  Do
>
>     /sbin/route -n
>
> to find out.
>
> 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.
>     --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
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