[ydl-gen] Re: Airport Networking

[John M. Wright]

Jonathan,

Have you tried using the system-config-network utility?  I have
had good luck with that, bringing my recalcitrant Airport card
to life.  [YDL 4.01 on a 2 1/2 year old TiBook: 1Ghz/60GB/512MB]

John Wright

On Sun, 25 Sep 2005,  "woodsend" <woodsend at bigpond.net.au> typed:
 > 
 > 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?
 > 
 > cheers
 > Jonathan Pratt
 >