Strange and Mysterious iBook Airport Problem, not 802.11g...

[Matt Patterson]

First off, are you using WEP or any other encryption. If you are, turn 
it off and see if you can get things to negotiate. Second, if you are 
attempting to use DHCP, dont until you have used a static address and 
are able to ping the airport base station. Third, try a normal ESSID, 
something like WLAN. If in the very basic ESSID == WLAN, no encryption, 
static ip case you still have problems, then I would start worrying 
about finding a conflicting irq or something that linux allocates.

Oh yeah, disable G mode on the airport extreme if you can.

Good luck,
Matt



Alexander Franchi wrote:

>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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