Airport/iBook/YDL3.0 problems

[Michael Baer]

>>>>> "Jon" == Jon Atkinson <jonathana@cleanstick.org> writes:

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

    Jon> As for running iwconfig, I did what you suggested.

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

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

    Jon> Any more ideas?

I have one, it's worth a try anyway. I found after getting a linksys
wireless hub, I had to add the rate to the iwconfig command to get the
card to find the wireless router consistently:

iwconfig eth1 .... rate 11M

it might help.
Mike

    >>
    >> 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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