Airport question

[Tom Burke]

I am (so far) unable to get my airport card (802.11b) working in my 800 
Mhz G3 iBook. I've been through the archives and haven't been able to 
find a definitive answer as to how to configure it. I'm running YDL 
3.0.1

Here's the output from running ifup-eth1:

Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) :
	SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid Argument
Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
	SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
	SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported.


And here's the text of ifcfg-eth1:

DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=no
DOMAIN=
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
HWADDR=[the hardware address of the AiPort card]
TYPE=Wireless
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
USERCTL=
PEERDNS=
GATEWAY=
ESSID=WLAN
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Auto
KEY=""
RATE=Auto


I'd be very grateful if someone with a working airport installation in 
an iBook could tell me how their configuration compares to mine.

Tom Burke



On 5 Apr 2004, at 20:11, Tony wrote:

> The confusion may be between Airport Card (802.11b) and Airport 
> Expreme Card (802.11g)?
>
> The Airport Card is supported.  I use it in my iBook with no problems. 
> The newer Airport Extreme Card is not yet supported.
>
> Tony
>
> Francis X. Maier wrote:
>> The YDL site makes reference to setting up Airport card use in YDL 3 
>> and
>> 3.01.  But I've seen mention in one or two forums that Airport isn't
>> supported in YDL 3 or 3.01.  Is that true?  Is anyone successfully 
>> using
>> Airport with this distro?
>> Having just bought an Airport card based on what I saw on the YDL 
>> site,
>> this will kill YDL for me if it's true.