[ydl-gen] Re: Airport Networking

[nova at macintoshclub.com]

> Hi all.
>
> I have an old TiBook (667MHz/30GB/512MB) with an airport card that I
> have just gone through the process of partitioning and reinstalling OSes
> so that it has MacOSX, MacOS9, and YDL (4.0.1 downloaded) on it - about
> 10GB each.
>
> I have an origianl base station (11MBPS) which works under OS X, and OS
> 9 [on this machine and others]. I have the network name and the numeric
> equivalent password key. The installation of YDL detects the card as an
> ethernet device. I have tried entering the airport information during
> installation [it becomes device eth0 = ethernet device] and afterwards -
> as an overlay (eth0:1 = wireless device) or replacing the original
> device [eth0 = wireless device] but the best I can get when I restart
> the network is
>
> <not exact text>
> Error with Set Mode (8B06), and
> Error with Set Frequency (8B04)
>
> resulting in failure to get teh network device activated.
>
> I tried doing the modprobe procedure described in a how-to but that
> didn't make any difference.
>
> I have no trouble using the built-in ethernet hardware for networking,
> but I'd like to do it without wires.
>
> Anyone with some ideas?
>
Have you installed wireless-tools? if so, see what iwconfig says. It will
dectect which cards are wireless.