Group: comp.os.linux.powerpc


Subject: Airport Extreme problem solved
From: anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at (Anton Ertl)
Date: 9/25/2007 9:51:39 AM
A year ago or so I bought an Airport Extreme card and plugged it into my iBook G4. Unfortunately, it never worked properly. I saw that it worked somewhat, but dhclient and any applications worked only close to an access point. We have now solved this problem: The antenna cable was not plugged in properly; it required a lot of force to plug it in properly. For anyone playing around with such a card who wants to set it up manually, here's what I do (on a Debian Etch system): /etc/init.d/networking stop #disable ethernet modprobe bcm43xx iwconfig eth0 essid tunet iwlist scan #not required dhclient eth0 You may have to change "eth0" and "tunet" to something else. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl Some things have to be seen to be believed anton@mips.complang.tuwien.ac.at Most things have to be believed to be seen http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/home.html