Baffled by Airport

[Francis X. Maier]

I don't use WEP, so that's not a factor in this.


On Apr 5, 2004, at 11:08 PM, Greg Hamilton wrote:

> The BROADCAST value looks pretty unlikely, probably should be
> BROADCAST=168.103.XX.255
>
> I also have these two settings. No idea what they are.
> USERCTL=yes
> PEERDNS=no
>
> You haven't set a KEY. Do you use a WEP key? If so then run the Apple 
> AirPort Admin Utility in OS X, connect to the base station and select 
> 'Equivalent Password' from the 'Base Station' menu. The value it 
> displays is the hex equivalent of the text passphrase you use as your 
> WEP encryption key. Copy this value to the 'KEY=' line in your config 
> file.
>
> On 06/04/2004, at 2:46 PM, Francis X. Maier wrote:
>
>> I'm running YDL 3.01 on an iMac with an Airport (802.11b) card.  The 
>> card appears as configured and active, but I can't make an internet 
>> connection.
>>
>> Background:  I lease eight static IPs from Qwest.  Five are usable by 
>> me.  Three are required by the system -- including the IP my 
>> Actiontech router uses (168.103.XX.6).
>>
>> I assign 168.103.XX.1 to my Airport Extreme base station, which then 
>> operates as the gateway for my other computers.
>>
>> The Xbox and the two Macs on my wireless LAN system work great, 
>> manually configured with the base station as their gateway.
>>
>> My Linux box is the problem.  Here's my current 
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file:
>>
>> DEVICE=eth1
>> BOOTPROTO=static
>> BROADCAST=168.103.XX.7
>> IPADDR=168.103.XX.5
>> NETMASK=255.255.255.248
>> NETWORK=168.103.XX.0
>> ONBOOT=yes
>> CHANNEL=1
>> TYPE=Wireless
>> MODE=Auto
>> KEY=
>> RATE=Auto
>> GATEWAY=168.103.XX.1
>> ESSID=dannyman1
>>
>> Can somebody steer me in the right direction?
>>
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