Fixed airport problem

2008-04-23 Thread Cheryl Homiak
All i had to do was do ifconfig wlan0_rename down and then ifconfig wlan0_rename up and then when I proceeded through using iwconfig to give the essid and key, it worked. Now have it running at boot with /etc/network/interfaces. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be a

Re: ibook g3 airport problem

2005-05-19 Thread Jorge Salamero
on Thursday 19 May 2005 01:57, Moritz Lutz wrote: > ibook:/home/espo# iwconfig eth0 key "s:" > Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : >     SET failed on device eth0 ; Operation not supported. > ibook:/home/espo# a similar problem apeared with last upgrade to 2.6.11.6 with this patch

Re: ibook g3 airport problem

2005-05-19 Thread Moritz Lutz
Thanks a lot Ben now its works very well :). Moritz On 5/19/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:07 +0200, Moritz Lutz wrote: > > here is the Firmware version of the airport card can you tell me how > > to update the firmware of the card because i could

Re: ibook g3 airport problem

2005-05-19 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 11:07 +0200, Moritz Lutz wrote: > here is the Firmware version of the airport card can you tell me how > to update the firmware of the card because i couldnt find the right > thing. > > eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 4.16 Ok, that's a really old one. Norma

Re: ibook g3 airport problem

2005-05-19 Thread Moritz Lutz
here is the Firmware version of the airport card can you tell me how to update the firmware of the card because i couldnt find the right thing. eth0: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 4.16 Moritz On 5/19/05, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 01:57

Re: ibook g3 airport problem

2005-05-18 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 01:57 +0200, Moritz Lutz wrote: > Hi there, > i got someproblems with my airport. I want to set an 128bit ascii wep > key. I'm running a 2.6.11 kernel image i installed with apt-get > install! can you tell me the firmware version of the airport card ? It should be displayed i

ibook g3 airport problem

2005-05-18 Thread Moritz Lutz
Hi there, i got someproblems with my airport. I want to set an 128bit ascii wep key. I'm running a 2.6.11 kernel image i installed with apt-get install! The error is: ibook:/home/espo# iwconfig eth0 key "s:" Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth0 ; Oper

Re: Airport problem

2004-07-21 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:55:39 -0400 Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DP> This is a NetGear or something? My friend has a Linksys AP that I DP> was trying to use the other evening at his apartment from my DP> PowerBook Pismo - for whatever reason I couldn't get it to talk to DP> the base stat

Re: Airport problem

2004-07-20 Thread James Tappin
On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:55:39 -0400 Derrik Pates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DP> James Tappin wrote: DP> > I have an iBook with an airport card which is configured to DP> > dual-boot Debian Sarge or OSX Panther, that I would like to be DP> > able to use on both the wireless network at work and at ho

Re: Airport problem

2004-07-19 Thread Derrik Pates
James Tappin wrote: I have an iBook with an airport card which is configured to dual-boot Debian Sarge or OSX Panther, that I would like to be able to use on both the wireless network at work and at home. Neither network broadcasts its ID and both use 128-bit WEP keys. I can connect to either net

Airport problem

2004-07-19 Thread James Tappin
First of all, sorry for cross posting this but I'm not sure if thi is a general wireless networking issue or "airport"-specific. I have an iBook with an airport card which is configured to dual-boot Debian Sarge or OSX Panther, that I would like to be able to use on both the wireless network at wo

Re: airport problem

2004-04-18 Thread Brady Jarvis
topper wrote: Hi Hello. I ve got an apple powerbook G4 with an apple airport (not extreme) inside. I've got all modules compiled and loaded (hermes, orinoco and airport) The card seems to be properly configured, and i even receive dhcp informations from my wireless router ---> iv got an ip a

airport problem

2004-04-18 Thread topper
Hi I ve got an apple powerbook G4 with an apple airport (not extreme) inside. I've got all modules compiled and loaded (hermes, orinoco and airport) The card seems to be properly configured, and i even receive dhcp informations from my wireless router ---> iv got an ip and the router sees me. B

Re: airport problem on ibook2

2003-02-27 Thread Eric Lemoine
> > Access Point is now 44:44:44:44:44:44, which I don't explain. More > > importantly, "Link Quality" is 0/92 and "Noise level" is 134/153. I > > don't know what this exactly means but that doesn't sound good to me! > > Your airport didn't find your access point. Maybe your essid doesn't > match

Re: airport problem on ibook2

2003-02-27 Thread Eric Lemoine
> > > What kind of hardware is used for the base station? > > The base station we have here is a Cisco Aironet (340 or 350). > that setup looks similar to the one I've got at home; however, > I'm using a PCMCIA cisco aironet 350 card on debian-x86 > as base station. > > Note that for some bizarr

Re: airport problem on ibook2

2003-02-27 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2003-02-27 at 08:15, Eric Lemoine wrote: > and nothing works (I can't ping anything). > > Access Point is now 44:44:44:44:44:44, which I don't explain. More > importantly, "Link Quality" is 0/92 and "Noise level" is 134/153. I > don't know what this exactly means but that doesn't sound goo

Re: airport problem on ibook2

2003-02-27 Thread furball
Hello Eric, > > What kind of hardware is used for the base station? > The base station we have here is a Cisco Aironet (340 or 350). that setup looks similar to the one I've got at home; however, I'm using a PCMCIA cisco aironet 350 card on debian-x86 as base station. Note that for some bizarre r

Re: airport problem on ibook2

2003-02-27 Thread Eric Lemoine
> > eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"rover" Nickname:"eric-ibook" > > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44 > > > > Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 > > Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > > En

Re: airport problem on ibook2

2003-02-27 Thread furball
Hej Eric, > eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"rover" Nickname:"eric-ibook" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457GHz Access Point: 44:44:44:44:44:44 > Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3 > Retry limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Encryp

Re: airport problem on ibook2

2003-02-27 Thread Eric Lemoine
Here's my problem (in more details) with my airport card on an 802.11b environment: Upon loading airport module (2.4.20-ben5) I get the following in dmesg: airport.c 0.11b (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0008:0046 eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmw

airport problem on ibook2

2003-02-24 Thread Eric Lemoine
Hi! I've been struggling with my Ibook2/airport setup for 3 days; with no luck up to now. Here's my /etc/network/interfaces file: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless_essid "rover" wireless_mode Managed wireless_ap a