iBook and XFree + French Keyboard + AirPort
Hello Does someone use XFree with a new iBook? With the latest files it doesn't work on my iBook.. Does someone use (I think i will copy and paste 'Does someone use' from now ;-) French layout for keyboard? For me q=a and a=a.. So I can't write 'q' (not cool to do rpm -qa :-) By the way, where do I find informations on how to configure a wireless network (airport) ? Thanks for your help Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vtr-hardware.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913
Re: iBook and XFree + French Keyboard + AirPort
Hi Sylvain, I can't really help you with the first two questions - sorry ;( As for airport stuff, the first place to start is loading the module that supports the airport card, airport.o - the maintainer of this code is Ben Herrenschmidt, his site is a good place to start if you start running into problems. You'll also need the iwtools package - this package works similarly to ifconfig, with the distinction being its configuration of wireless capabilities. Once you have a system that loads the airport module correctly (which Mandrake should - I didn't have any problems with it) something to the following effect should get things going for you: /sbin/modprobe airport /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid webprojkt rate 5.5M /sbin/dhcpcd -d eth1 The first line loads the airport driver. The second line brings up the interface, the third line configures its wireless capabilities - my airport base station id is 'webprojkt' and I the 'rate 5.5M' is optional - this is what I have my speed set to. Finally, running the dhcp client retrieves an IP address from the base station - if you don't have DHCP enabled on your base station, you'll have to use ifconfig to configure the broadcast/netmask/IP address of the interface as well as setting things like DNS servers, default routes, etc. I don't use WEP on my network, so if you need WEP, you'll need to check out the various resources on line - just search for WEP and airport and Linux and you should find some decent pages. HTH Brice Sylvain OBEGI wrote: Hello Does someone use XFree with a new iBook? With the latest files it doesn't work on my iBook.. Does someone use (I think i will copy and paste 'Does someone use' from now ;-) French layout for keyboard? For me q=a and a=a.. So I can't write 'q' (not cool to do rpm -qa :-) By the way, where do I find informations on how to configure a wireless network (airport) ? Thanks for your help Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vtr-hardware.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913
Re: What happened to the ppc tree on the mirrors
Still no word on what happened to the mirrors? I'm still now seeing it there. Errr, NOT seeing it. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ James O'Malley Altamente.com Business Internet Solutions _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ - If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. -- Anatole France
Re: iBook and XFree + French Keyboard + AirPort
Ainsi parlait Brice D Ruth : Does someone use (I think i will copy and paste 'Does someone use' from now ;-) French layout for keyboard? For me q=a and a=a.. So I can't write 'q' (not cool to do rpm -qa :-) For console, use mac-fr3 keymap. Use loadkeys mac-fr3 in console, or change it directly in initialisation scripts. For X, see http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/mac, they got some tips and files. Also, this is a copy of an old message i posted there, but before the list was archived (10 Jun 2001): We had a number of problems with keyboard under X. We finally solved it by using the rpm found here http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/mac/tc/kbd-mac-fr-2.2-1.noarch.rpm and using the following X configuration : Option XkbSymbols macintosh/fr Option XkbKeycodes macintosh-adb-fr Option XkbGeometry macintosh Option XkbRules xfree86 Option XkbModel macintosh Option XkbLayout fr Note that we used the 2.2 version of the package, since we are currently using a 2.2.19 kernel with old input layer for keyboard input. According to my fellow local macintosh guru, pending switch to 2.4 kernel will force to upgrade to latest 3 version of this package. Just a last problem, with compose keys : ^ isn't a dead key, waiting for another input, but immediatly output ^. -- Guillaume Rousse [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key http://bohm.snv.jussieu.fr/~rousse/gpgkey.html
Re: What happened to the ppc tree on the mirrors
On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, James O'Malley wrote: Still no word on what happened to the mirrors? I'm still now seeing it there. Errr, NOT seeing it. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ James O'Malley Altamente.com Business Internet Solutions _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ - If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. -- Anatole France Frederic is on it... David BAUDENS [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 06 August 2001 18:14, Stew Benedict wrote: BTW - do you know why all the PPC files are gone from the mirrors? No idea. Fred? It seems that rsync is going crazy. I take care of that. -- Fred - May the source be with you Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC Faq: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppcm=99441208917647w=
Re: iBook and XFree + French Keyboard + AirPort
Hi Brice Ok, it works great, thanks for your help! Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vtr-hardware.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913 - Original Message - From: Brice D Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:53 PM Subject: Re: iBook and XFree + French Keyboard + AirPort Hi Sylvain, I can't really help you with the first two questions - sorry ;( As for airport stuff, the first place to start is loading the module that supports the airport card, airport.o - the maintainer of this code is Ben Herrenschmidt, his site is a good place to start if you start running into problems. You'll also need the iwtools package - this package works similarly to ifconfig, with the distinction being its configuration of wireless capabilities. Once you have a system that loads the airport module correctly (which Mandrake should - I didn't have any problems with it) something to the following effect should get things going for you: /sbin/modprobe airport /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid webprojkt rate 5.5M /sbin/dhcpcd -d eth1 The first line loads the airport driver. The second line brings up the interface, the third line configures its wireless capabilities - my airport base station id is 'webprojkt' and I the 'rate 5.5M' is optional - this is what I have my speed set to. Finally, running the dhcp client retrieves an IP address from the base station - if you don't have DHCP enabled on your base station, you'll have to use ifconfig to configure the broadcast/netmask/IP address of the interface as well as setting things like DNS servers, default routes, etc. I don't use WEP on my network, so if you need WEP, you'll need to check out the various resources on line - just search for WEP and airport and Linux and you should find some decent pages. HTH Brice Sylvain OBEGI wrote: Hello Does someone use XFree with a new iBook? With the latest files it doesn't work on my iBook.. Does someone use (I think i will copy and paste 'Does someone use' from now ;-) French layout for keyboard? For me q=a and a=a.. So I can't write 'q' (not cool to do rpm -qa :-) By the way, where do I find informations on how to configure a wireless network (airport) ? Thanks for your help Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.vtr-hardware.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913
Re: What happened to the ppc tree on the mirrors
Still no word on what happened to the mirrors? I'm still now seeing it there. _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ James O'Malley Altamente.com Business Internet Solutions _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/ - If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. -- Anatole France
