Re: I'm one step away from Airport
On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Orion Buckminster Montoya wrote:
> At this point I do:
> # ifdown eth0
This likely erased all your useful routes. Check /sbin/route.
> $ ping harper.uchicago.edu
> ping: unknown host harper.uchicago.edu
> $ ping 128.135.12.7
> PING 128.135.12.7 (128.135.12.7): 56 data bytes
> ping: sendto: Network is unreachable
> ping: wrote 128.135.12.7 64 chars, ret=-1
also I hope you know about Apples helpful (*cough* ahem) munging of the
WEP key. If you type hex into the Airport "password", you need to
translate that to get *actual* hex. To stay sane, precede the WEP key
with a dollar sign when configuring the Airport base station.
-jwb
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