Airport question

[Tom Burke]

Nope - still nothing.

I went back to my original ifcfg-eth1 file, which has practically 
nothing set, and that just produced the Set Encode error. By inspection 
I determined that this referred to the 'Key' parameter and I tried 
various settings for this: first blank, then "". Then I set a WEP 
password on my base station (Belkin) - I had previously been using no 
encryption but limiting access to known MAC addresses. I've determined 
(from another Mac, running MacOS 10.3.3) that the change in base 
station configuration worked - after entering the password in the 
Airport config box, the Mac was able to connect to the the 
now-encrypted Belkin base station.

Then I went back to the iBook and tried a few more alternatives: first 
the key, in straight hex digits, and that produced the same error as 
before: 'SET failed on device eth1 ; Operation not supported'. Then I 
tried prefixing the hex digits with ' 0x ' (as in the instructions for 
MacOSX); that failed, and then I tried prefixing the hex digits with ' 
$ '; that also failed. Finally I tried using the text version of the 
password, both with and without double quotes - no success. And I've 
tried all these with 40-bit and 128-bit encryption at the base station. 
No success. In some cases the error changed to 'invalid argument', but 
that was the only difference.

So I still can't get Airport to work. Yet others seems to be suggesting 
that, for them, it just *worked* - first time, no messing. Is there 
possibly a level of compatibility that isn't really documented? 
Possible changes by Apple to the chip set in the airport cards? My 
airport card is brand new, bought last week for this machine.

Tom Burke

On 4 Apr 2001, at 23:50, Ray Auge (FROM HOME) wrote:

> 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