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Re: iBook (dual USB 2001) + airport = !@#$!@#%@#$

Jesse Andrews wrote:
I am writing in a vain attempt to finally get my airport card to work under debianppc on my new ibook. I know the hardware works (under mac os 9, x) and I know all the information for my WAP - ssid "jesse" ... 

I am using the 2.4.8 kernel.

My WAP does NAT with 192.168.0.1 being the WAP's address, and the gateway, ...
My static ip for the built-in wired port is 192.168.0.101 (eth0)
my static ip for the airport wireless is 192.168.0.69 (eth1)


Simple, simply use 2 different networks for the 2 different cards, eg.

192.168.0.0 network on eth0 (netmask 255.255.255.0)
192.168.1.0 network on eth1 (netmask 255.255.255.0)
Otherwise how do you expect the system to tell which interface it should use when pinging on the 192.168.0.0 network ?
BTW, this is a question for debian-users, not debian-powerpc, there's probably nothing wrong with your hardware, or config. 


ping 192.168.0.1 works when eth0 is up.
ping 192.168.0.1 doesn't when eth1 is in use :(

Some funny things:
My WAP reports that its mac address is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:31 while iwconfig says that it is xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:32. Ok, that could be a major problem, but I don't know.... 

I initialize the airport doing:
	modprobe airport
ifup eth1 
and my /etc/network/interfaces has:
iface eth1 inet static address 192.168.0.69 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 up route add default gw 192.168.0.1 

iwconfig eth1 reports:
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"jesse"  Nickname:"blah"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437GHz  Access Point: 00:50:18:06:96:32
          Bit Rate=11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:3/3
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:23/92  Signal level:-72 dBm  Noise level:-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  invalid crypt:0  invalid misc:0

	(notice low link quality, signal level, and noise level)

cat /proc/network/wireless
	Inter-| sta-|   Quality        |   Discarded packets
	 face | tus | link level noise |  nwid  crypt   misc
	  eth1: 0000   22.  183.  161.       0      0      0

	(notice the signal, noise are now high!)
when I try to ping with just my airport enabled, it adds some bytes to TX in ifconfig (like normal) but so far I have transfered 26.6Kb via mostly pinging and the RX is only 738b and no ping has EVER been sucessful.
I have check the ssid on the WAP and it is "jesse" (with the case being that). I don't have WEP enabled (no use until I get normal working!)... 
ifconfig eth1
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:65:1B:3F:6A
          inet addr:192.168.0.69  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:178 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          RX bytes:738 (738.0 b)  TX bytes:27340 (26.6 Kb)
          Interrupt:57 Base address:0xc000

lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
airport                 3072   1
orinoco                32304   0  [airport]
hermes                  5328   0  [airport orinoco]
af_packet              15744   0  (autoclean)
unix                   19488  98  (autoclean)

I know my WAP uses channel 6.  but doing
iwconfig eth1 channel 6 gives:
SIOCSIWFREQ: Operation not supported using auto or 2Mbps for the rate doesn't help.... I read something somewhere about hermes.conf file... This may only be for compiling, but I did a search find / | grep hermes.conf and it turned up nothing.
I disconnected eth0 and ifconfig eth0 down and then brought up eth1 (airport) and pinged the WAP (192.168.0.1) and with the WAP 6 inches from my box the WLAN led (wireless activity light) never blinked!!!!!! 

Arg!

Anyone know anything that can help?

Desperately,
Jesse Andrews
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