Re: airport problem on ibook2
> > > 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 manage
^^^^^^^
you meant "airport"?
> mode, though.
> I'm not sure if/how to configure this in a cisco base
> station, but presumably it should be possible.
Our CISCO base station is in "master" mode.
> I'll attach you the relevant part from my /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts
> file, just in case.
Thx.
> > 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.
I'm talking about ibook's antenna.
> 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?!
Ibook2 does have an antenna. It is integrated and the only thing to do
upon inserting the airport card is plugging the little antenna cable
into the card.
> 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.
You're right.
--
Eric
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