Strange and Mysterious iBook Airport Problem, not 802.11g...
Alexander Franchi
4nobody at gmail.com
Mon Jun 20 23:53:58 UTC 2005
Hello all,
I have been having a problem with every distribution of linux I try,
and now even Ubuntu. I have an 800MHz G3 Apple iBook (not the
clamshell) which has a standard, 802.11b wireless Airport card. I can
go in System - Administration - Networking and activate my eth1 (the
Airport card), and enter in the ESSID and WEP 128bit password.
(ESSID=***-*** ***** where * is a letter, so it has a space in it).
The WEP is 13 characters long. I set it to automatically configure IP
and such using DHCP. This works fine in OSX (it's a dual-boot system),
and my DHCP server is an Airport Extreme Base Station (access point),
meaning it's 802.11b/g compatible, and this access point is connected
to my cable modem using ethernet. Normally everything should work, but
it doesn't.
Here is the feedback I get on lspci:
http://img60.echo.cx/img60/6307/dsc069888ty.jpg
http://img60.echo.cx/img60/1738/dsc069874hs.jpg
Here is what I get on eth1 in ifconfg:
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:65:0B:ED:F3
inet6 addr: fe80::230:65ff:fe0b:edf3/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:358 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
interrupt:57
On typing iwconfig I get:
eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"***-*** *****" Nickname:"HERMES I"
Mode: Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access
Point:44:44:44:44:44:44
Bit Rate:11Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm Sensitivity:1/3
Retry Limit:4 RTS thr:off Fragment trr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=0/92 Signal Level=134/153 Noise Level=134/153
RX invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed Beacon:0
In iwlist scan:
eth1: Failed to read scan data : Operation not supported
I aksed in forums and irc, no one can think of why this is happening.
Thanks in advance,
llama
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