Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Ben Reser
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:20:01AM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: > (On Solaris it is "hme" instead of "eth" as a standard.) Actually their was no standard on Solaris. The interface name was dependent on the driver. hme just occurred most often because Solaris on Sparc's generally had NICs that us

Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Terrence Oblak wrote: TO> I was planning on doing the following, again any input would be greatly TO> appreciated: TO> TO> Write a script that would: TO> 1) Shutdown eth0 device TO> 2) Copy the correct ifcgf-eth0.xx script on top of TO> ifcgf-eth0 TO>

Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Terrence Oblak
I would like to thank everyone for the replies. It worked, my portable is truely portable. I spent 4 hours researching on the internet and trying different settings. I must have missed something somewhere. I do have one more question: I have access to a wireless network at home and at work

Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Ben Reser
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 08:17:08PM -0400, Anthony Procaccini wrote: > Hmm - I wasn't aware of the hanging boot aspect of airport access. Is > there any way around this? I might boot into Linux at work as well. > If I have a network cable attached, will it still hang since it can > see the eth1

Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Anthony Procaccini wrote: AP> Hmm - I wasn't aware of the hanging boot aspect of airport access. Is AP> there any way around this? I might boot into Linux at work as well. AP> If I have a network cable attached, will it still hang since it can AP> see the eth1 connection? in

Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Anthony Procaccini
> > >And it should work. In the future you won't have to do either it >should just come up when you boot. But fair warning if you're away from >a access point your boot will hang while it tries to get an address via >DHCP. > >-- >Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >http://ben.reser.org Hmm - I wasn

Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Ben Reser
On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 10:20:52AM -0600, Terrence Oblak wrote: > Could someone give me detailed instructions for getting my wireless > connection working? The more detailed the instructions the better, please > remember that Linux is very new to me, so something that might be obvious to > yo

Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Terrence Oblak
I need some detailed help with setting up my wireless Airport card. Hardware: tiPB G4 400 Mhz 384 Megs of RAM Mac OS9.1 on 3 gigs Mandrake PPC 8.0 on remaining 7 gigs Airport Card Linksys WAP11 I installed the Airport card and setup the WAP. Booted into