Re: airport on ibook2

[Claas Langbehn <claas@rootdir.de>]

<quote who="Nirmal Govind">

Hi, that looks like my config which i posted some time ago in
this mailinglist. Should work pretty fine. Here (debian sid)
iwconfig (without any parameters) returns information on
"lo, eth0, eth1". 

e.g.:
eth1      IEEE 802.11-DS  ESSID:"Haus-68-Funknetz"  Nickname:"WindowsME"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.432GHz  Access Point: 00:02:2D:39:99:99
          Bit Rate:11Mb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity:1/3  
          Retry limit:4   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:2347 B
          Encryption key:7777-6969-3333-7777-3333-9999-99
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:58/92  Signal level:-36 dBm  Noise level:-94 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I would try to use eth1 only and switch eth0 off before.

just do  "ifdown eth0" and "ifdown eth1" as root and then try again
with "ifup eth1".

In this config, eth0 is used by sungem as wired ethernet interface. I
compiled it as being inside the kernel.
Only airport is comiled as modules. since it needs to be unloaded to
do most powersavings (correct me if i am wrong).
But anyway, just make sure that the config fits. I mean eth1 must be
the wireless interface. if not, just change the settings to eth0 or
such.

If it works manually, I would not fire eth0 up with "auto". Just
use airport as "auto". It could also be confusing if you have got both
connections to your local net and that might cause problems.



Bye,claas