YD3.0 Wireless Inoperative

YD yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Thu, 29 May 2003 18:07:06 -0400


Great!

I'll give this a whirl.  I do not have an extreme card.  If I read you
correctly, you're saying even the how to won't help me with my 12 inch
iBook?

George

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew McVinnie" <lintila@mac.com>
To: <yellowdog-newbie@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: YD3.0 Wireless Inoperative


> The set up HOW TO on YDL web site for YDL 2.3 still works for YDL 3.
> HOWEVER if you have airport extreme card, you are screwed. YDL does not
> have drivers for the Extreme card yet. Nothing I have tried will get it
> to work with mt 12" power book
>
> Someday, maybe YDL will come with a complete feature set. If it doesnt
> support Extreme, then it doesnt support a 12" PB
>
> Andy
>
> On Thursday, May 29, 2003, at 03:13 PM, <yd@litenverden.com> wrote:
>
> > I have just installed YD3.0 on a new iBook 800MHz 12 laptop.  It is
> > dual boot,
> > 10G for OS X and 17G for YD.  Both OS's are running just fine.  The
> > installs were
> > simple.
> >
> > However, wireless is dead.  I went to this machine because I could not
> > get
> > wireless with WEP to work on my Gateway Solo with RH or SuSE and
> > reports were
> > good on YD.  Looks like I may still be stuck (hope not).
> >
> > During boot, eth0 comes up fine if connected to the LAN (wire).  eth1
> > fails.  I'm
> > ASSUMMING that the airport card is eth1.  The Redhat network config
> > utility fails
> > on line 137 with a message that indicates the problem is probably a
> > bug.  I
> > checked out eth1 with iwconfig and found that it was, indeed, set up
> > for
> > wireless, but with no config info.  I entered the essd and key with
> > iwconfig.
> > That now checks out OK.  Still won't boot and run.
> >
> > Anyone have any thoughts?  Anyone running YD3.0 on a new iBook?
> >
> > George
> >
> >
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