[CLUE-Tech] Wireless problem: the epilogue

[Francis X. Maier]

Folks, trust me, I'm 55 and I've worked with computers for 20 years.  
So this is embarrassing.

The Airport card wasn't working because, uh, I hadn't plugged in the 
antenna to the card.

Sorry for the annoyance.  Just take comfort in how many fruitless hours 
I put into trying to figure this out.  ;-(

On Apr 6, 2004, at 10:53 AM, Francis X. Maier wrote:

> I'm running Yellow Dog Linux 3.01 (basically Red Hat for Macs) on an
> iMac with an Airport (802.11b) card.  The card appears as configured 
> and
> active, but I can't make an internet connection.
>
> Background:  I lease eight static IPs from Qwest.  Five are usable by
> me.  Three are required by the system -- including the IP my Actiontech
> router uses (168.103.XX.6).
>
> I assign 168.103.XX.1 to my Airport Extreme base station, which then
> operates as the gateway for my other computers.
>
> The Xbox and the two Macs on my wireless LAN system work great, 
> manually
> configured with the base station (again, 168.103.XX.1) as their 
> gateway.
>
> My Linux box is the problem.  Note that I do not use WEP.  Here's my
> current /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 file:
>
> DEVICE=eth1
> BOOTPROTO=static
> BROADCAST=168.103.XX.7
> IPADDR=168.103.XX.5
> NETMASK=255.255.255.248
> NETWORK=168.103.XX.0
> ONBOOT=yes
> CHANNEL=1
> TYPE=Wireless
> MODE=Auto
> KEY=
> RATE=Auto
> GATEWAY=168.103.XX.1
> ESSID=dannyman1
>
> Can somebody steer me in the right direction?
>
>
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