Airport question

[Ray Auge (FROM HOME)]

On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 17:18, Tom Burke wrote:
> 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
Make sure this correct (most devices default to chan 6)
> MODE=Auto
> KEY=""
Change this to
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.
> 
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