At 1:13 +0200 9/20/02, christophe =?unknown-8bit?Q?barb=E9?= wrote: >Hi again, > >'modprobe airport' seems to work. >So I try to connect to my base station with the following lines in my >/etc/network/interfaces file : > >iface eth1 inet dhcp > wireless_essid abcd > wireless_key s:efgh > >where abcd is the network name provided by the airport base and efgh is >the password I use under macos-x for this network.
That is configuration for a DHCP-client. ( I don't know if it is a good configuration ) > >But then > ># ifup eth1 >Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 >Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. >All rights reserved. > >Please contribute if you find this software useful. >For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html > >Listening on LPF/eth1/00:30:65:09:e4:d1 >Sending on LPF/eth1/00:30:65:09:e4:d1 >Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net >DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 >DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 That looks like the output of a DHCP-server, which is not expected on a client. See http://ldp.nllgg.nl/HOWTO/mini/DHCP/ for DHCP information. > >and so on ... > >Any ideas ? I not sure if wireless ethernet can do a DHCP request. And something else: Notice that this mailinglist is about PowerPC. > >Christophe > Geert St
