Subject: Re: Using Airport issues
From: Chris Ruprecht (chrup999@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 05 2001 - 13:40:35 MDT
William,
I have no experience with the airport card as such, but I can tell you what
you can do to have this come up at startup.
you have /etc/rc.d/init.d which has all the scripts, regardless of order of
execution.
then you have /etc/rc.d/rcX.d directories where the X is a number between 0
and 6 which denotes the run level (aka init level). for a normal system,
these are either 3 (character mode) or 5 (X11 mode).
Lets look at rc3.d for now. You have a file called S10network which is in
fact a symbolic link to init.d/network. The scripts in this directory are
run in their alphabetical order at system startup for run level 3. Id you
create a file called my-airport in init.d, you can make a symbolic link like
this:
ln -s ../init.d/my-airport S10myairport
and since m comes before n, your script will execute bewfor the network is
started.
Hope this answers your question.
Best regards,
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "William K. Gibson" <firstdesk@columbus.rr.com>
To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: Using Airport issues
>
> 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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