Airport/iBook/YDL3.0 problems

[Jon Atkinson]

Okay, I've made some progress:

Following the advice in a parallel post, I added KEY="" to my
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth1. Now the GUI tool works fine, so I
think we can forget about it for now :-)

As for running iwconfig, I did what you suggested.

Now the top line of my iwconfig gives ESSID "Wireless", and the nickname
has been set to my hostname (which is 'randall', incidentally).

The access point is still 44:44:44:44:44:44, and the link quality is still
at 0.

Any more ideas?

--Jon


>
> Aha, we are getting somewhere. :-) First, the wireless settings are not
> correct.  Indeed,
>
> At 21:24 +0100 on 2003-5-15 Jon Atkinson wrote:
>  >
>  > Okay, /sbin/iwconfig eth1 gives the following output:
>  >
>  > IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"" Nickname:"HERMES I"
>
> You should have something like ESSID:"something" instead of ESSID:"". It
> looks like you did not enter a value for ESSID or that your GUI tool
> (with which I am not familiar, sorry) does not pass this value forward
> (i.e., to the card).
>
> What I can suggest is the command line for the (dreaded) iwconfig to
> make things work (one hopes anyway ;-) ).  If using iwconfig leads to a
> working network then at least you will know that the GUI tool is the
> culprit.  So, I will assume that the ESSID of the network is the same as
> for the x86 laptop, i.e. "Wireless" (if this is not so modify this
> string appropriately).  Do then
>
>     /sbin/iwconfig eth1 mode Managed essid "Wireless"
>
> (I also assume that you do not use encryption, I seem to recall from a
> previous post that you do not).
>
> Now keep your fingers crossed and do again
>
>     /sbin/iwconfig eth1
>
> The information should by now be similar to the one given on your x86
> machine for the same command.
>
>  > Mode: Managed Frequency:2.422Ghz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44
>
> This is again strange, but I guess that the cause is actually the
> impossibility of the Airport to join the wireless network because of the
> incorrect ESSID.
>
>  > Link Quality:0/92 signal level:134/153 noise level:134/153
>
> Again straange and again it might just be because of the Airport
> misconfiguration.
>
> And then we get to the routes, which do not exist!
>
>  > /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
>
> That means no routes (except for the local loop which has nothing to do
> with the wireless network).
>
> Well, that may be again because of the incorrect setup of the card. So
> let us postpone the discusion because this problem may
> automagically go away once you bring your Airport up.
>
> Anyway, I would suggest trying the above commands.  Get then back to us
> with the result and we can go from there.
>
> Cheers,
> 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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