Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-15 Thread Harald T Zipko
Hello Todd, ... >>pci-adapter/pcmcia-card with a prism II chip... > >http://hostap.epitest.fi/ thank you for this hint ;) I'll try it asap and give you a short (or long - who knows...) feedback! Greetings Harald -- (o- Best regards //\ Harald T Zipko V_/_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] No html-

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-14 Thread Todd Lyons
Harald T Zipko wrote on Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 07:35:05AM +0200 : > > You'll mention it in the next sentence, in this special case I do not > use an apple airport card, just a combination of a > pci-adapter/pcmcia-card with a prism II chip... http://hostap.epitest.fi/ Blue skies...

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-14 Thread Stew Benedict
to recompile the > kernel? > > >2.4.X, but the modules don't build. I'm loading up the pcmcia > >adapter/card and assigning it an IP on the host/access point machine, > >then > > So you are doing this "by hand" - and you are speaking of a mdk 8.

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-12 Thread Stew Benedict
On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Harald T Zipko wrote: > Hello Stew, > > >I've got a similar setup, but it's on an old system with pcmcia stuff > >built from scratch. I've tried moving my old cards to Mandrake with > ^^^ What exactly do you mean by that? Do I have to recompile the > kernel? > I had t

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-11 Thread Harald T Zipko
d. I'm loading up the pcmcia >adapter/card and assigning it an IP on the host/access point machine, >then So you are doing this "by hand" - and you are speaking of a mdk 8.2 box which is acting as a wireless access point, right? >running dhcpd on both eth0 (wired) and eth1 (w

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-11 Thread Harald T Zipko
ion it in the next sentence, in this special case I do not use an apple airport card, just a combination of a pci-adapter/pcmcia-card with a prism II chip... >But honestly I haven't configured a pcmcia wireless card in Mandrake >since 7.2 (actually the machine is still running) and I k

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-10 Thread Stew Benedict
ne, then running dhcpd on both eth0 (wired) and eth1 (wireless) lans. You'd have to adapt it a bit to the current configuration, but I can probably help you out a bit. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.openproject.net #cooker-ppc

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-10 Thread Ben Reser
network cards are under Linux. But honestly I haven't configured a pcmcia wireless card in Mandrake since 7.2 (actually the machine is still running) and I know some details about pcmcia have change since then so I'm not sure what the exact steps are. > >The ESSID is the network name t

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-10 Thread Harald T Zipko
cess point. >I can't give really good advice without further details about topology >of your wired and wireless network. If you can give me a better sense >of exactly what you are trying to do I can probably answer better. OK, the mdk-box is connected to the internet via usb-alcatel

Re: struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-09 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 08:46:48AM +0200, Harald T Zipko wrote: > Hi out there, > > I am desperate :( - everything works except the wireless stuff For > some hours I tried to enable a wireless pci-adapter/pcmcia-card device. > According to the manufacturer's site the

struggling with wireless device ...

2002-10-09 Thread Harald T Zipko
Hi out there, I am desperate :( - everything works except the wireless stuff For some hours I tried to enable a wireless pci-adapter/pcmcia-card device. According to the manufacturer's site the card is supported in linux for it is a prism II based pcmcia-system (I suppose I should us

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
olutions turn off the ONBOOT and manually bring up the interface ala ifup eth0 or Just remember to disable the interface before going somewhere where you don't have wireless. If you use DHCP on one interface and don't disable it but have another interface that comes up fine the one with DH

Re: Linux Newbie & Wireless

2001-09-22 Thread Henrik Edlund
e eth1 connection? in the cfg file change to ONBOOT=no and then just do "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ipup eth1" when you want wireless access. -- 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: 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 o

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

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Sylvain OBEGI
This works on an iBook 2 (this is what I use) Sylvain OBEGI Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ : 661913 - Original Message - From: "Ben Reser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 11:01 PM Subject: Re: Wireless? > On T

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 04:40:25PM -0400, Jonathan Sailor wrote: > Developed by Lucent No developed by a consortium. Lucent just happens to be one of the members of the IEEE working group and also an early manufacturer of equipment that was compatible. http://www.ieee802.org/11/ -- Ben Reser

RE: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good to know - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ben Reser Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 5:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Wireless? On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:25:19PM +0200

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:25:19PM +0200, Henrik Edlund wrote: > Will this work for iBook2 as well? I don't have an iBook2, but these instructions weren't specific to the Titanium. They should work with any airport enabled Macintosh. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org Wizar

RE: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Jonathan Sailor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Developed by Lucent - -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Henrik Edlund Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Wireless? On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jonathan

RE: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Jonathan Sailor wrote: JS> If the wap is based on the Lucent 802.11B standard (aka Airport,) JS> yes. Otherwise no. IEEE 802.11b. -- Henrik Edlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.edlund.org/ "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives; shit happens." -- Ange

RE: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Jonathan Sailor
, 2001 11:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wireless? I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a tiPowerbook (much faster than OS X ever did). My work has a wireless network using a Linksys Wireless Access Point. Does Apple's Airport card communicate with other WAPs or is it designed to work wi

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Henrik Edlund
nfig if you're using WEP (encryption keys/passwords) BR> (in the wireless-tools package if you don't have it installed) BR> like so: iwconfig eth0 essid key BR> BR> If you have a ascii password append s: to the front of it. For BR> example if your ascii password is "ab

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Stew Benedict
On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, Ben Reser wrote: > On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:17:08AM +0200, Dick Visser wrote: > > add a line like this to /etc/modules.conf: > > eth1airport > > that automagically loads airport hermes etc. > > I've had trouble with the kernel automagically loading the other two >

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Ben Reser
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 10:17:08AM +0200, Dick Visser wrote: > add a line like this to /etc/modules.conf: > eth1 airport > that automagically loads airport hermes etc. I've had trouble with the kernel automagically loading the other two modules. So I never tried putting that in modules.conf. I

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-06 Thread Dick Visser
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Terrence Oblak wrote: > My other question is, will Mandrake support the Airport card? add a line like this to /etc/modules.conf: eth1airport that automagically loads airport hermes etc. then add appropiate keys to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 see man iwco

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-05 Thread Ben Reser
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:13:46PM -0600, Terrence Oblak wrote: > I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a tiPowerbook (much faster than OS X ever did). > My work has a wireless network using a Linksys Wireless Access Point. > Does Apple's Airport card communicate with other WAPs or is it

Re: Wireless?

2001-09-05 Thread Henrik Edlund
On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Terrence Oblak wrote: TO> I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a tiPowerbook (much faster than OS X TO> ever did). TO> TO> My work has a wireless network using a Linksys Wireless Access TO> Point. Is it 802.11b? TO> Does Apple's Airport card communicate

Wireless?

2001-09-05 Thread Terrence Oblak
I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a tiPowerbook (much faster than OS X ever did). My work has a wireless network using a Linksys Wireless Access Point. Does Apple's Airport card communicate with other WAPs or is it designed to work with the Air Base Station only? I've been told th