Subject: Re: Orinoco (to 2.4 tree or not to 2.4 tree)
From: Spunky Cadaver (spunkycadaver@mac.com)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 00:34:33 MDT
Ok I tried this stuff, and looked at the page...not seeming to work,
the card doesnt light up...any other ideas? =)
>Nick Shaff's bits of Sun, 22 Jul 2001 translated to:
>
>>Could you explain to me how you got it working with the silver? the only
>
>Hopefully I remember all the steps correctly. What follows is what I used
>for a DHCP based connection with a software airport base station.
>
>1. Edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and set
>
> include memory 0x80000000-0x80ffffff
> include port 0x1000-0x1fff
>
> I have since been told that the second line should be 0x100-0x1ff, but
> what I list above is working.
>
>2. Edit /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts and remove the section the comments say
> to remove. I then added something like
>
> home,*,*,00:60:1D:*|home,*,*,00:02:2D:*)
> INFO="Wavelan IEEE (HomeWireless Network)"
> ESSID="HomeWireless"
> MODE="Ad-Hoc"
> ;;
>
> The section where I added this was already partially defined with a
> comment referring to the Orinoco.
>
>3. Edit (create?) /etc/pcmcia/network.opts. I then added
>
> home,*,*,*)
> INFO="WaveLan IEEE"
> DHCP="Y"
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=`hostname`
> ;;
>
>4. Edit /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and set PCIC=i82365
>
>5. Create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 with something like
>
> NAME=freyr
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=yes
> DNS1=192.168.64.113
> DNS2=
>
>6. Set the SCHEME environment variable to the id specified in the config
> files (i.e. home).
>
>7. Do /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start and watch the log file to see if
> anything interesting happens. Depending on what other networking you
> have set up, you might need to remove a previous default route from
> the routing table.
>
>If you haven't already done so, you should also take a look at Paul Lucas'
>wireless page (homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/personal/powerbook/wireless.html)
>With the new YDL distribution and stock 2.2.19 kernel I didn't need to build
>a custom kernel or add any software as he describes, but I did derive most
>of my configuration settings from the information he provides.
>
>>difference I know of between the gold and silver is that Apple's Airport
>>software works with the gold and doesnt with the silver (I think). Not sure
>
>Actually it does work with the Silver. That is what I am using on the Mac
>OS side.
>
>
>Jim
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