Re: airport problem on ibook2
Hello Eric,
> > What kind of hardware is used for the base station?
> The base station we have here is a Cisco Aironet (340 or 350).
that setup looks similar to the one I've got at home; however,
I'm using a PCMCIA cisco aironet 350 card on debian-x86
as base station.
Note that for some bizarre reason, the cisco aironet card
must be driven in ad-hoc mode, not as "master"; else, the
aironet won't find it. The aironet then must be in managed
mode, though.
I'm not sure if/how to configure this in a cisco base
station, but presumably it should be possible.
I'll attach you the relevant part from my /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
file, just in case.
> People using x86 laptops have succeeded in making their wireless
> connection work.
hm, that's strange, though.
> > If possible, I suggest also booting into OS X and checking if/what
> > networks are visible there; that helped me quite a bit when
> > I set up my own environment.
> Oops. I forgot to mention that my wireless connection does not work
> either from within OS X. I got the same symptoms, i.e. a bogus
> access point value (44:44:...) and a base station not seeing anything.
> That's what made me think I may have an antenna problem. The antenna
> cable seems well plugged though.
btw, what antenna cable? At the base station? I'm getting
confused, here.
Since (above you claimed) others have succesfully getting their
wireless connection to work with x86, the base station can't
be the problem. On the other hand, the ibook2 doesn't have any
antenna?!
btw: in order to actually see an access point, the airport
card must be up but not necessarily configured with an
IP address; you may just issue an "ifconfig eth1 up" without
any IP address to get it there.
bye
Philipp Kaeser
-- from /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts --
# NOTE: the MAC address below should be changed to fit your cards address
case "$ADDRESS" in
*,*,*,00:07:50:CB:26:11)
INFO="Test"
ESSID="YOURESSID"
MODE="ad-hoc"
NICK="YOURNICK"
;;
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