[ydl-gen] RE:airport networking

[woodsend]

The wireless tools are definitely installed (checking the rpm database).

I don't know what happened, but airport seems to be working. The only thing
I can think of is that restarting the system cleaned up any problems that
were latent. I was restarting the network service after every change I
tried...

FWIW when I start the system-config-network utility from the command line
(as opposed to the menu when I get no debug/error messages) I keep getting
messages about the wireless component being compiled with version 17 (and
version 16 being in use). It doesn't seem to be a problem, but...

Thanks for your assistance

cheers
Jonathan Pratt

>
> > 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.
>