On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:56:16PM +0100, Olaf Grewe wrote: > from looking at the various pages on airport/wavelan, I got that there > have been only few problems lately, so none was updated. > I'd like to change to 2.4 but would hate to loose my airport connection. > Could anyone provide me with helpful comments for building my own kernel > w/ airport support? I currently use 2.2.17preXX on a PowerBook Firewire. >
Hi, I'm using a WaveLAN card on my pb g3 (wallstreet 2) with kernel 2.4.1-pre11 and it's working great. I wrote up a little page explaining how I got it to work (<http://www.kurup.com/wireless.phtml>). Basically, you need to set CONFIG_NET_RADIO to yes in the kernel (just like in 2.2.x). But there's also an option for CONFIG_PCMCIA which is not present in 2.4.x. Set this to 'no'. Why? Because everything there is provided by the pcmcia_cs module package, but the kernel's version doesn't have the wireless modules, the tools (like cardmgr), or the config files (everything in /etc/pcmcia). Good luck! Vinod -- _____________________________ Vinod Kurup, MD email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 617.277.2012 cell: 617.359.5990 http://www.kurup.com
