Subject: Using Airport issues
From: William K. Gibson (firstdesk@columbus.rr.com)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 12:12:21 MDT
Ok, I got the airport module made, and following directions on the YDL
support site for the 2.2 kernel (I have the 2.4 kernel but the
airport24.shtml file has nothing there):
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/airport22.shtml
I finally got it to work but I tried to get it to automatically come up at
reboot and I still cannot seem to do it.
Here are a few strange things
in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts I made a duplicate of ifcfg-eth0 and made
it ifcfg-airport with DEVICE=airport. Well this didn't work. But after
calling
cat /proc/net/wireless
I found out that the airport wireless interface is really implimented as
eth1
Ok, so I make a ifcfg-eth1 (with DEVICE=eth1) file and do a nework restart.
Yay! it works.
Ok, now to tell the airport about my base station:
I call
modprobe airport network_name "myname"
And I call
iwconfig eth1 enc XXXXXXXXX (where XX.. denoes my encryption number)
I change the default GATEWAY to eth1 and hooray, I can surf wirelessly!
Here is my problem. I don't understand things enough to be able to make the
airport network come up at boot time. Can somebody tell me how to do the
modprobe calls before /etc/rc.d/init.d/network is called? Or maybe I'm doing
something wrong in general?
--William K. Gibson
1stDesk Systems
firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
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