How to configure a USB 802.11b key (wireless dongle)

[linc]

Hi Derick,

I have been through this a couple of times.  My off the cuff advice is:
1)Get an Airport card
2)boil a pot of water
3)put in a rock and the D-Link
4)in 20 minutes throw the D-Link into the lawn
5)enjoy your soup :)

But seriously, there is some pain involved.  Before going into things
too much, note that Ubuntu PPC supports your dongle from the single CD
install.  Also I have the device working under Mandrake's newest PPC
release, but required much hacking.  And OpenBSD can be INSTALLED over
the net through the D-Link, which is awesome.  But let's trudge on.

I covered the steps I used in my blog:
http://www.pycs.net/users/0000337/2004/12/4/

I wrote the bash commands from memory, and there seems to be some
pseudocode in it, but it should help.

Also I had to use a static IP, since ISC dhcpd that comes with YDL is
too old to know how to talk to wlan0.  It was very easy for me to
compile and install it from source right from ISC.  Then you can just
dhclient wlan0 and get your DNS, gateway, etcetera from your access
point.

Hopefully this will help, I feel your pain.  BTW running a new
linux-wlan-ng driver has been MUCH more stable for me than the OS X
driver.

Linc



> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:55:52 -0400
> From: Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: How to configure a USB 802.11b key (wireless dongle)
> To: Yellow Dog Linux Newbie List
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> I'm not at all sure I'm interpreting your information correctly.
> But  
> it may be that although you have the source for 2.6.10 you may not
> have  
> compiled the source nor have selected those other kernel options
> which  
> make and allow the advanced kernel to use the new features or
> options  
> it offers beyond 2.6.8 (which could include the drivers, etc. to run  
> the devices you are interested in.  Remember that if you don't
> select  
> the options for those drivers before the kernel is actually built
> the  
> kernel will and can build itself -- after invocation, to do so of  
> course, only with standard settings).
> 
> On Aug 29, 2005, at 10:22 PM, Jacob Becker wrote:
> 
> > So I'm attempting to setup a D-link DWL-122 wireless
> > usb key with yellowdog 4.0.    I'm trying to follow
> > the direction on
> >
> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_4.0/usb-802.11b- 
> > key.shtml
> >
> > but when I do a make config it shots off an error
> > saying that it has located the header files, but the
> > complete source code is missing or incomplete.
> >
> > So i tried to update the kernel using a rpm (kernel
> > and kernel source 2.6.10)   but it said that the
> > packages where already there.
> >
> > Is there a step that i'm missing?   The instructions
> > call for kernel 2.6.8, but i'm using 2.6.10, could
> > that be the problem?
> 
> 
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