Re: Airport and 2.4 kernels


Subject: Re: Airport and 2.4 kernels
From: William K. Gibson (firstdesk@columbus.rr.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2001 - 14:22:39 MDT


on 10/18/01 12:29 PM, David Wheeler at david@wheeler.net wrote:

> Okay, so I set up the file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-airport
> as follows:

here's a clipping from when I was having problems. Perhaps this will help:

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 implemented as
eth1

Ok, so I make a ifcfg-eth1 (with DEVICE=eth1) file and do a network 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.. denotes my encryption number)

I change the default GATEWAY to eth1 and hooray, I can surf wirelessly!

--William K. Gibson
1stDesk Systems
firstdesk@columbus.rr.com



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