[ydl-gen] PS3 Wifi on YDL.net Enhanced Howto

Owen Stampflee ostampflee at terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue May 1 11:36:17 MDT 2007


1. Update the firmware on your PS3
	This can be achieved from GameOS with the Software Update function 
	in settings.

2. Download the new PS3 wifi enabled kernel:
	URL: http://ydl.net/enhanced/updates/yellowdog-5.0/RPMS/kernel-ps3-2.6.16-20070425.ydl.3.ppc64.rpm

3. Install the new kernel
	rpm -ivh /path/to/kernel-ps3-2.6.16-20070425.ydl.3.ppc64.rpm

4. Edit /etc/kboot.conf
	Take your default kernel line, and make a copy of it and then modify 
	the original line to point to the new kernel.

	For example, if your default kernel line is:
		ydl='/dev/sda1:/vmlinux-2.6.16-20061110.ydl.2ps3 initrd=/dev/sda1:/initrd-2.6.16-20061110.ydl.2ps3.img root=/dev/sda2 video=ps3fb:mode:3 rhgb'

	The new section would like this:
		ydl='/dev/sda1:/vmlinux-2.6.16-20070425.ydl.3ps3 initrd=/dev/sda1:/initrd-2.6.16-20070425.ydl.3ps3.img root=/dev/sda2 init=/sbin/init video=ps3fb:mode:3 rhgb'
		oldydl='/dev/sda1:/vmlinux-2.6.16-20061110.ydl.2ps3 initrd=/dev/sda1:/initrd-2.6.16-20061110.ydl.2ps3.img root=/dev/sda2 video=ps3fb:mode:3 rhgb'

Where oldydl is your original kernel.

5. Reboot

6. Configuring Wireless
	a) Unplug the ethernet cable, eth0 is both the wired and wireless 
	   Ethernet port on PS3s.
	b) Launch system-config-network (Network in the Settings menu)
	c) Delete the eth0 (gelic_net) interface.
	d) Create a Wireless connection.
	e) You may now configure that wireless connection as you would with
	   other YDL versions. One note here that confused me when I did this
           was that the ESSID specified as "Auto", when I actually needed to
	   remove that and select the Auto radio button.
	f) You can now activate the interface.

7. Enjoy your new wireless enabled PS3.



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