On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 22:30, Michael Hunt wrote: > On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 05:32, Chris Anderson wrote about airport extreme > and options ones has for getting i8t working: > > > You don't. Your only option for an ibook g4 or powerbook 12" is to use a > > usb wlan adapter. I'm using a DWL-122 without issue personally. > > I currently have one on order for my G4 ibook. Do you have, or could you > pointy me to, debian specific instructions for setting this up ??? Was > there anything particular to debian/ppc that you had to do in order to > make this work ??? (I am totally new to wireless under linux having only > set this stuff up under that other OS). Download the latest linux-wlan-ng release from linux-wlan.org. Untar it and then run 'make config', you'll want the prism usb driver when it asks. Then when configuring is done just install it with 'make all; make install'. As for actually using it, I use the following script. It isn't overly pretty, but it gets the job done. Technically the card can be brought up with hotplug and the configurations in /etc/wlan/, but I honestly found that to be flaky even with the correct information. So I use this script to bring it up. #!/bin/sh # # wlan.sh - Script to set up a dwl-122.... # Author: Chris Anderson, bla bla bla no real copyright # Usage: ./wlan.sh [ssid] [wep key] # If no ssid is specified it will attempt to bind to the first found # If no wep key is assigned it will attempt to use opensystem # # Reset the module, or load it initially (in case of a removal) modprobe prism2_usb prism2_doreset=0 authtype='sharedkey' if [ ! -n $2 ] then authtype='opensystem' fi # Bring the interface up first wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_hostwep decrypt=true encrypt=true # All the fun key stuff wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKeyID=0 wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11PrivacyInvoked=true wlanctl-ng wlan0 dot11req_mibset mibattribute=dot11WEPDefaultKey0="$2" wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid="$1" authtype="$authtype" ifconfig wlan0 # Just throwing in a 2 second wait so the nic associates with the AP sleep 2 dhclient wlan0 > > Michael Hunt -- Chris Anderson <chris@nullcode.org> ICQ: 72021847 Jabber: chrisja@jabber.org 20B2 CB34 8AA5 05BC A90C 2CDD 2768 D4B4 2B93 424B
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