Re: airport in /etc/network/interfaces
>Hi again,
>
>'modprobe airport' seems to work.
>So I try to connect to my base station with the following lines in my
>/etc/network/interfaces file :
>
>iface eth1 inet dhcp
> wireless_essid abcd
> wireless_key s:efgh
>
>where abcd is the network name provided by the airport base and efgh is
>the password I use under macos-x for this network.
Check that you have a link in /proc/net/wireless. If you don't, then
you authentication key is probably incorrect. You shouldn't use the
ASCII password you use in MacOS, but the hexadecimal one that can be
obtained via the "Network equivalent password" of the MacOS Airport
application.
Ben.
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