Re: Ti Powerbook G4 optional airport card?
On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:08:45AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > Thanks, Ben! That should get me started. > > I do try to pick good subject lines. > > As I said, the built-in ethernet jack works like a champ. The problem (as > stated in the subject line, and then again in the text of the message) is > that the optional wireless airport card is not being configured. I'll read > up on the modules you mentioned, and see if I can figure out what's going on > from there... Okay I shouldn't have been replying at 4am because somehow I misread your email. If you're using WEP you'll want to add the following to your: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 (where eth0 is the airport interface). WIRELESS_ESSID= WIRELESS_ENC_KEY= Also make sure you have the wireless-tools rpm installed. You can find information on the format of the above values in the iwconfig man page. HTH's. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
Re: Ti Powerbook G4 optional airport card?
Thanks, Ben! That should get me started. I do try to pick good subject lines. As I said, the built-in ethernet jack works like a champ. The problem (as stated in the subject line, and then again in the text of the message) is that the optional wireless airport card is not being configured. I'll read up on the modules you mentioned, and see if I can figure out what's going on from there... Enjoy! Rick Ben Reser wrote: > On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:48:48PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > > I have a Titanium PowerBook (G4) with the optional built-in wireless > > Ethernet card. I've installed Mandrake Linux / PPC v 8.2 on it. The > > built-in wired Ethernet works like a champ, but I can't get it to recognize > > the wireless Ethernet. > > > > Presumably there is a module I need to load? > > This is what my /etc/modules.conf looks like: > alias usb-interface usb-ohci > alias serial macserial > alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_pmac > alias eth1 gmac > alias eth0 airport > > eth1 is my built in ethernet jack > eth0 is my airport. > > The installer should have at least found the built in ethernet jack. > > Tip: Pick a good subject. Don't ask a question about your built in > ethernet and title the email about the airport card. A lot of us don't > read every email. > > -- > Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://ben.reser.org > > What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, > whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism > or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
Re: Ti Powerbook G4 optional airport card?
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 04:48:48PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: > I have a Titanium PowerBook (G4) with the optional built-in wireless > Ethernet card. I've installed Mandrake Linux / PPC v 8.2 on it. The > built-in wired Ethernet works like a champ, but I can't get it to recognize > the wireless Ethernet. > > Presumably there is a module I need to load? This is what my /etc/modules.conf looks like: alias usb-interface usb-ohci alias serial macserial alias sound-slot-0 dmasound_pmac alias eth1 gmac alias eth0 airport eth1 is my built in ethernet jack eth0 is my airport. The installer should have at least found the built in ethernet jack. Tip: Pick a good subject. Don't ask a question about your built in ethernet and title the email about the airport card. A lot of us don't read every email. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
Ti Powerbook G4 optional airport card?
I have a Titanium PowerBook (G4) with the optional built-in wireless Ethernet card. I've installed Mandrake Linux / PPC v 8.2 on it. The built-in wired Ethernet works like a champ, but I can't get it to recognize the wireless Ethernet. Presumably there is a module I need to load? Thanks for any help you can give. Rick
Re: Airport Card
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:01:01PM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: > hermes.c: 3 Oct 2001 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > orinoco.c 0.08a (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) > airport.c 0.06f (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0007:0019 > eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 7.25 > eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported. > eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported. > eth1: WEP supported, "128"-bit key. > eth1: MAC address 00:30:65:52:11:24 > eth1: Station name "HERMES I" > eth1: Allowed channels mask: 0x1fff > eth1: ready > airport: card registered for interface eth1 This only happens if someone does something like: alias eth1 airport -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." -Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
Re: Airport Card
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ryan Boder wrote: RB> ibook2. What did you do to get it working then? Just add alias eth1 airport to /etc/modules.conf Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 with: DEVICE=eth1 BOOTPROTO=dhcp NETMASK=255.255.255.0 ONBOOT=no and then just do one of these depending on what net I want to logon to: WIRELESS_ESSID=work WIRELESS_ENC_KEY=423402398432 /sbin/ifup eth1 WIRELESS_ESSID=home /sbin/ifup eth1 (values above fake of course) -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
Re: Airport Card
ibook2. What did you do to get it working then? Ryan Boder http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rtb On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Ryan Boder wrote: > > RB> > RB> Hi, is anybody using an apple airport card with Mandrake linux 8.0? I just > RB> bought one. If so what do I do to use it? If not I would like to get it > RB> working. Any suggestions or instructions? > RB> > RB> All I have tries so far is installing the kernel-pcmcia-cs package from > RB> the Mandake 8.0 cd and /etc/init.d/pcmcia start does not seem to do > RB> anything with the airport card. > > What computer do you have? I did not need the pcmcia package on my iBook2 > at least. > > -- > Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://www.edlund.org/ > > "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit > happens." -- Angelina Jolie > > >
Re: Airport Card
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> This may not be where to look. I'm sort of guessing as I'm not blessed SB> with this hardware. It's like PCMCIA I take it, but not quite. It may be SB> more appropriate to just probe the modules like we do for mesh, bmac, etc. SB> What I'm looking for is some kind of clue that the device is present, even SB> before I try to probe, which may save me from locking up a machine SB> unecessarily. Does dmesg or /proc give any indication before the SB> module(s) are installed? SB> SB> With "normal" PCMCIA, the info corresponds with what cardctl reads: SB> SB> [root@powerbook pcmcia-cs-3.1.26]# cardctl ident SB> Socket 0: SB> product info: "Ethernet", "Adapter", "2.0" SB> manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab SB> function: 6 (network) SB> SB> SB> Any info you can provide would help. /proc/net/wireless seems to exist even when the module is not loaded, but it is hard for me to say why and if that is consistent. root@localhost:/home/henrik> rmmod airport root@localhost:/home/henrik> rmmod orinoco root@localhost:/home/henrik> rmmod hermes root@localhost:/home/henrik> cat /proc/net/wireless Inter-| sta-| Quality| Discarded packets face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt misc root@localhost:/home/henrik> modprobe airport root@localhost:/home/henrik> cat /proc/net/wireless Inter-| sta-| Quality| Discarded packets face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt misc eth1: 55. 214. 159. 0 0 0 root@localhost:/home/henrik> >From dmesg: hermes.c: 3 Oct 2001 David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> orinoco.c 0.08a (David Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and others) airport.c 0.06f (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0007:0019 eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 7.25 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported. eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported. eth1: WEP supported, "128"-bit key. eth1: MAC address 00:30:65:52:11:24 eth1: Station name "HERMES I" eth1: Allowed channels mask: 0x1fff eth1: ready airport: card registered for interface eth1 -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
Re: Airport Card
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 08:46:10PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote: > > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Ben Reser wrote: > > > a) 3.1.26 of the pcmcia kernel module which is what ships with Mandrake > > 8.0 doesn't work on ppc. Only 3.1.27 and higher do. > > > > ??? > > [root@powerbook pcmcia-cs-3.1.26]# dmesg > ---snip > Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.26 > kernel build: 2.4.4-6.2mdk #1 Thu Jun 28 02:41:08 CEST 2001 > options: [pci] [cardbus] > Intel PCIC probe: > TI 1211 rev 00 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:13, mem 0x8088 > host opts [0]: [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 22] [lat 32/176] [bus 1/4] > PCI card interrupts, polling interval = 1000 ms > cs: memory probe 0x8000-0x80ff: excluding 0x8080-0x808f > eth1: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 22, hw_addr 00:E0:98:03:DB:9D At least this is what I'm told and I have problems with it hanging the entire machine. Particularly when removing cards. Stopping pcmcia, removing the card and starting it again prevents this. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." -Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
Re: Airport Card
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Ben Reser wrote: > a) 3.1.26 of the pcmcia kernel module which is what ships with Mandrake > 8.0 doesn't work on ppc. Only 3.1.27 and higher do. > ??? [root@powerbook pcmcia-cs-3.1.26]# dmesg ---snip Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.26 kernel build: 2.4.4-6.2mdk #1 Thu Jun 28 02:41:08 CEST 2001 options: [pci] [cardbus] Intel PCIC probe: TI 1211 rev 00 PCI-to-CardBus at slot 00:13, mem 0x8088 host opts [0]: [serial pci & irq] [pci irq 22] [lat 32/176] [bus 1/4] PCI card interrupts, polling interval = 1000 ms cs: memory probe 0x8000-0x80ff: excluding 0x8080-0x808f eth1: NE2000 Compatible: io 0x300, irq 22, hw_addr 00:E0:98:03:DB:9D Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
Re: Airport Card
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Henrik Edlund wrote: > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: > > SB> example: > SB> > SB> 0x01bf 0x010a "xirc2ps_cs""Accton|EN226" "ethernet" > SB> > SB> I'd like to work towards getting the card detected/setup during the > SB> install in the next release. > > How do I get/fetch the information you need? > This may not be where to look. I'm sort of guessing as I'm not blessed with this hardware. It's like PCMCIA I take it, but not quite. It may be more appropriate to just probe the modules like we do for mesh, bmac, etc. What I'm looking for is some kind of clue that the device is present, even before I try to probe, which may save me from locking up a machine unecessarily. Does dmesg or /proc give any indication before the module(s) are installed? With "normal" PCMCIA, the info corresponds with what cardctl reads: [root@powerbook pcmcia-cs-3.1.26]# cardctl ident Socket 0: product info: "Ethernet", "Adapter", "2.0" manfid: 0x0149, 0xc1ab function: 6 (network) Any info you can provide would help. Thx, Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
Re: Airport Card
On Thu, Oct 18, 2001 at 05:57:32PM -0400, Ryan Boder wrote: > All I have tries so far is installing the kernel-pcmcia-cs package from > the Mandake 8.0 cd and /etc/init.d/pcmcia start does not seem to do > anything with the airport card. a) 3.1.26 of the pcmcia kernel module which is what ships with Mandrake 8.0 doesn't work on ppc. Only 3.1.27 and higher do. b) airport cards are not actually pcmcia. They just look like it. It uses a proprietary interface. Yah apple had to reinvent something else. At any rate the archives should tell you how to set it up. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." -Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu
Re: Airport Card
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Stew Benedict wrote: SB> example: SB> SB> 0x01bf 0x010a "xirc2ps_cs""Accton|EN226" "ethernet" SB> SB> I'd like to work towards getting the card detected/setup during the SB> install in the next release. How do I get/fetch the information you need? -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
Re: Airport Card
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Ryan Boder wrote: > > Hi, is anybody using an apple airport card with Mandrake linux 8.0? I just > bought one. If so what do I do to use it? If not I would like to get it > working. Any suggestions or instructions? > > All I have tries so far is installing the kernel-pcmcia-cs package from > the Mandake 8.0 cd and /etc/init.d/pcmcia start does not seem to do > anything with the airport card. > There have been several discussions on setting this up - you might want to check the list archives. On the same topic, do we want to add an entry to: /usr/share/ldetect-lst/pcmciatable For the device, and would anyone have the information to do so? example: 0x01bf 0x010a "xirc2ps_cs""Accton|EN226" "ethernet" I'd like to work towards getting the card detected/setup during the install in the next release. Thanks, Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
Re: Airport Card
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Ryan Boder wrote: RB> RB> Hi, is anybody using an apple airport card with Mandrake linux 8.0? I just RB> bought one. If so what do I do to use it? If not I would like to get it RB> working. Any suggestions or instructions? RB> RB> All I have tries so far is installing the kernel-pcmcia-cs package from RB> the Mandake 8.0 cd and /etc/init.d/pcmcia start does not seem to do RB> anything with the airport card. What computer do you have? I did not need the pcmcia package on my iBook2 at least. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Angelina Jolie
Airport Card
Hi, is anybody using an apple airport card with Mandrake linux 8.0? I just bought one. If so what do I do to use it? If not I would like to get it working. Any suggestions or instructions? All I have tries so far is installing the kernel-pcmcia-cs package from the Mandake 8.0 cd and /etc/init.d/pcmcia start does not seem to do anything with the airport card. Ryan Boder http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~rtb
Re: airport card
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Ben Reser wrote: > WEP works fine. > Get the iwconfig package and set the enc option. > It wants the WEP encryption key in hex so if yo're used to typing text in you > might have to convert it. Thanks it does indeed work on my closed-WEP-network :) All I needed to do was provide an essid name and a key: iwconfig eth1 essid "mynetworkname" iwconfig eth1 key A235D2FD88 This key is use is NOT the password that you use in MacOS to access the airport basestation! You have to choose Equivalent Password somewhere in the basestation-config utility and then it spits out a hex key that you van use in linux. Gehe now I see that this 10 digit "equivalent key" as they nicely call it, is just the password in hex. Damn how these Apple guys can always masquerade real terms as userfriendly, dummy-understandable terms :) I'll go have a coffee outside with my now wireless linux ibook -- Dick Visser **** TIENHUIS consultancy ** * * Linux, networking, security * * ***J. Catskade 10hPhone: +3120 6843731 * * * *1052 BW AmsterdamFax: +3120 8641420 * ** *The Netherlands Cell: +3162 2698108 * * *WWW: http://www.tienhuis.nl * * *Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** PGP-key: http://www.tienhuis.nl/pgp.key
Re: airport card
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Re: airport card
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:28:07AM +0200, Dick Visser wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: > > > Works with my AirPort basestation - w/o WEP. I've heard that WEP works, > > though - I might give that another try sometime. > > Ah ok but WEP is the least I can do to prevent my network from being > sniffed so operating without wep is no option here :) WEP works fine. Get the iwconfig package and set the enc option. It wants the WEP encryption key in hex so if yo're used to typing text in you might have to convert it. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Wizard's First Rule - People are stupid, they will believe anything if they want it to be true or they fear it is true - Terry Goodkind
Re: airport card
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Re: airport card
Having a closed network works OK, I'd say ... that way the base station doesn't advertise what its network name (ssid) is - so one has to guess it (or know it). Not as secure as WEP (though WEP has been shown to be incredibly insecure, so me thinks - why bother?). Brice Dick Visser wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: Works with my AirPort basestation - w/o WEP. I've heard that WEP works, though - I might give that another try sometime. Ah ok but WEP is the least I can do to prevent my network from beingsniffed so operating without wep is no option here :)
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Re: airport card
On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: > Works with my AirPort basestation - w/o WEP. I've heard that WEP works, > though - I might give that another try sometime. Ah ok but WEP is the least I can do to prevent my network from being sniffed so operating without wep is no option here :) -- Dick Visser **** TIENHUIS consultancy ** * * Linux, networking, security * * ***J. Catskade 10hPhone: +3120 6843731 * * * *1052 BW AmsterdamFax: +3120 8641420 * ** *The Netherlands Cell: +3162 2698108 * * *WWW: http://www.tienhuis.nl * * *Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** PGP-key: http://www.tienhuis.nl/pgp.key
Re: airport card
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Re: airport card
Works with my AirPort basestation - w/o WEP. I've heard that WEP works, though - I might give that another try sometime. -Brice Dick Visser wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, Brice D Ruth wrote: On my iMac DV, I used command-F1/2/3 etc. However - one thing that you can do is this:# echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodesAnd now whatever is labeled as 'alt' on your iBook should be the modifier you need (for me this is the alt/option key). No Go whatsover :(BUT!!! I accidently found the trick :)WHen you press alt-rightarrow of alt-leftarrow you cycle though the vt's.:)) As for AirPort - I'm using kernel 2.4.4-6.2mdk and the AirPort card appears as eth1 using the airport.o module. It depends on orinoco.o and hermes.o. Yep this seems to work too for the 2001 ibook. I just have to install thewireless tools and see if it likes my airport basestation. I have thepossibility to check if it works with an Lucent AP-1000 too, I'll let youknow if that of any use.Thanks!
Re: airport card
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Re: airport card
On my iMac DV, I used command-F1/2/3 etc. However - one thing that you can do is this: # echo 1 > /proc/sys/dev/mac_hid/keyboard_sends_linux_keycodes And now whatever is labeled as 'alt' on your iBook should be the modifier you need (for me this is the alt/option key). As for AirPort - I'm using kernel 2.4.4-6.2mdk and the AirPort card appears as eth1 using the airport.o module. It depends on orinoco.o and hermes.o. HTH Brice Dick Visser wrote: >any idea what the wlan card of a 2001 ibook is called in mdk80? >I got the 100Mbit working OK, gmac it's called. >But what's the name of the orinoco silver wireless card? > >Oh another question: I cannot use virtual terms with any combination of >ctrl-alt (or option, shift or whatever). >I can live without X, but virtual terminals are the least I need :) > >Anyone knows the keystroke for this on a 2001 ibook? > >Regards, >
Re: airport card
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airport card
any idea what the wlan card of a 2001 ibook is called in mdk80? I got the 100Mbit working OK, gmac it's called. But what's the name of the orinoco silver wireless card? Oh another question: I cannot use virtual terms with any combination of ctrl-alt (or option, shift or whatever). I can live without X, but virtual terminals are the least I need :) Anyone knows the keystroke for this on a 2001 ibook? Regards, -- Dick Visser **** TIENHUIS consultancy ** * * Linux, networking, security * * ***J. Catskade 10hPhone: +3120 6843731 * * * *1052 BW AmsterdamFax: +3120 8641420 * ** *The Netherlands Cell: +3162 2698108 * * *WWW: http://www.tienhuis.nl * * *Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** *** PGP-key: http://www.tienhuis.nl/pgp.key
