Re: Woody, Orinico, and Airport Base Station DHCP
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you.
It worked!
I went with your suggestions first and halelujah, I could actually ping
the base station and the rest of the world with it. That feels good.
Any favorite charities that you'd like me to send a donation to?
Good night and thank you again.
Eric
A happy, hooked-up Debian user.
--- christophe barbe <christophe@cattlegrid.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 02:26:07PM -0700, Eric M. Winslow wrote:
> > Here's my /etc/network/interfaces:
> >
> > auto lo
> > iface lo inet loopback
> >
> > auto eth0
> > iface eth0 inet dhcp
> > wireless_essid " THE NET" #yeah, that extra space is legit
>
> I have not tried with a space in the name. If it still doesn't work
> with
> the below advice, I would (if I was you) try with a basic essid
> first.
>
> > wireless_mode managed
>
> As believe you can (should?) drop this line.
>
> > wireless_key s:<key in ASCII> #I have tried hex, too
>
> I never get it working using the s: syntax.
> It works perfectly for me with the following syntax:
>
> wireless_enc HEXKEY
>
> I have the airport base station configured to 128bits encryption.
> Are you sure you have the good HEXKEY. It took me a few minutes to
> find
> it in the MacOS-X config tool.
>
> Christophe
>
> > #end of /etc/network/interfaces
> >
> > What am I missing? Something in this file, or is there another
> config
> > file that I need to check.
> >
> > Thanks for the help. If I can get this to work I won't load up
> Redhat 8
> > on this laptop, I promise.
> >
> > Eric M. Winslow
> >
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