Activating Apple Airport

[Clinton MacDonald]

Mr. Stephen-MGI1225:

Thudium Stephen-MGI1225 wrote:
> How do I configure YDL to use my Airport card to connect to the Internet?

That depends on how new is your PowerBook -- and unfortunately, one of 
the answers is "you can't." If your PowerBook is one of the recent 
aluminum models that use Airport Extreme (802.11g) rather than than the 
original Airport (802.11b), then drivers do not exist yet, and you 
cannot use the internal wireless card. The best you can do is to get a 
PCMCIA wireless card that *is* supported, and use that, instead.

> I installed YDL 3.0.1 on my G4 PowerBook and now want to use my wireless 
> Airport device to connect to the Internet.  I followed Terra Soft's 
> HOWTO, which merely says use the Network utility.  After starting up 
> Network I selected the device "Apple Airport."  But when I try to 
> activate that device I get a cannot find device error message.

By the way, this is a very good example of how to ask a question in a 
forum like the Yellow Dog Linux Newbies list. You included *almost* all 
the relevant information (except for the exact model of your PowerBook, 
which you may not have known might be important).

Welcome aboard!

Best wishes,
Clint

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