Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you. It worked! I went with your suggestions first and halelujah, I could actually ping the base station and the rest of the world with it. That feels good.
Any favorite charities that you'd like me to send a donation to? Good night and thank you again. Eric A happy, hooked-up Debian user. --- christophe barbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Eric M. Winslow wrote: > > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces: > > > > auto lo > > iface lo inet loopback > > > > auto eth0 > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > wireless_essid " THE NET" #yeah, that extra space is legit > > I have not tried with a space in the name. If it still doesn't work > with > the below advice, I would (if I was you) try with a basic essid > first. > > > wireless_mode managed > > As believe you can (should?) drop this line. > > > wireless_key s:<key in ASCII> #I have tried hex, too > > I never get it working using the s: syntax. > It works perfectly for me with the following syntax: > > wireless_enc HEXKEY > > I have the airport base station configured to 128bits encryption. > Are you sure you have the good HEXKEY. It took me a few minutes to > find > it in the MacOS-X config tool. > > Christophe > > > #end of /etc/network/interfaces > > > > What am I missing? Something in this file, or is there another > config > > file that I need to check. > > > > Thanks for the help. If I can get this to work I won't load up > Redhat 8 > > on this laptop, I promise. > > > > Eric M. Winslow > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > > http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Christophe Barbé <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E > > Cats seem go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for > what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
