Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-05 Thread Joerg Maier
Hi, its good that after complaining i found the issue myself. It's now working without a flaw. If anybody is interestet: The openwrt uses "shared key" authentication by default, which is more insecure than "open" authentication. I don't know why openwrt hast this default then. Changing the aut

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-05 Thread jmaier . shove-it . de
He, sorry forgot my kernel/hardware description: % uname -a Linux powerbook 2.6.20.7jcm #1 Sun Apr 22 14:40:21 CEST 2007 ppc GNU/Linux % lspvi -vv #(only the broadcom part) 0001:10:12.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) Subsystem

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-05 Thread jmaier . shove-it . de
Hi all, i am still having trouble with bcm43xx. Had some usb wlan stick running. Unfortunately gave it away as i had bcm43xx running the first time with another access point. Since i have my own asus wl500gp router with its own openwrt linux running on it i cannot connect with bcm43xx while i c

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-05 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:00:08 +0200, William Xu wrote: > Ah, it seems that's the cause. After completely removing MOL, the > wireless network finally comes up, for the first time! I guess it's not fair to call this a bug, but maybe it could be useful to introduce in the MOL documentation a setup

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-05 Thread William Xu
2007/5/3, Alejandro Muñoz Fernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The one I have (BCM4306) works with linux-2.6.18 in my Ibook G4. I didn't manage it to work using the firmware-cutter utility, I had to download the firmware to make it work (http://au.ubuntu.cafuego.net/pool/edgy-cafuego/bcm43xx/bcm43xx-f

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-05 Thread William Xu
3 May 2007 17:17:43 GMT, Jack Malmostoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 03 May 2007 09:20:10 +0200, William Xu wrote: > "ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted". What's wrong here? I had that for a while, and it turned out to be some wrong iptables setting as a result of my tries to enable networ

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-03 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Thu, 03 May 2007 09:20:10 +0200, William Xu wrote: > "ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted". What's wrong here? I had that for a while, and it turned out to be some wrong iptables setting as a result of my tries to enable networking in MOL. If you did something like that, check what # ipta

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-03 Thread Alejandro Muñoz Fernandez
So your chip id is bcm4306. I didn't realize. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-03 Thread Alejandro Muñoz Fernandez
El Jueves, 3 de Mayo de 2007 09:22, William Xu escribió: | 2007/5/3, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: | > Did you used bcm43xx-fwcutter for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware? | | Yes. i apt-get it, then run the script installed by bcm43xx-fwcutter. | | > bcm43xx out of 2.6.21 is working like

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-03 Thread William Xu
2007/5/3, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Did you used bcm43xx-fwcutter for extracting Broadcom 43xx firmware? Yes. i apt-get it, then run the script installed by bcm43xx-fwcutter. bcm43xx out of 2.6.21 is working like a charme here: Glad to know... -- William -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-03 Thread William Xu
2007/5/2, Eugen Dedu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ifconfig eth1 up iwconfig eth1 essid ... rate 11M dhclient eth1 It's interesting that after explicitly setting rate to 1M, it can get a ip at least(by dhcp). While, the network is still broken, ping always returns "ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-02 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Wed, 02 May 2007 the mental interface of William told: > Hi folks, > > I've been struggling days to try making airport extreme work, only in > vain..At present, it could scan wireless network successfully. And > this is how i do it: > > # iwlist eth1 scan > # iwconfig eth1 essid "A213" > # iwco

Re: airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-02 Thread Eugen Dedu
ifconfig eth1 up iwconfig eth1 essid ... rate 11M dhclient eth1 HTH, -- Eugen Dedu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

airport extreme with linux-2.6.18

2007-05-02 Thread William
Hi folks, I've been struggling days to try making airport extreme work, only in vain..At present, it could scan wireless network successfully. And this is how i do it: # iwlist eth1 scan # iwconfig eth1 essid "A213" # iwconfig eth1 rate auto # iwconfig eth1 key off # dhclient eth1 The last step