[slackintosh-users] Re: G3 Pizmo Airport card...

  • From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: slackintosh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:05:03 +0100

On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:02:05AM -0500, Jon Grosshart wrote:
>    Greets all. First, thanks for porting my favorite distro to PPC... :-)
>    I'll  try  to be brief. My airport card is eth1 and I have to manually
>    modprobe  airport.  inet1  doesn't  seem to identify it. So I modprobe
>    from  the  beginning  of rc.inet1 (can't find a rc.modules anymore)...

then just create rc.modules and make it executable. rc.inet1 is not the
right place to load modules.

>    airport, orinoco and hermes all get loaded.
>    rc.pcmcia  gives  me  a bunch of IO errors so I chmoded it to 644... I

you don't need rc.pcmcia for the airport card.

>    set  my  rc.wireless.conf  with  my  essid,  mode and key. I filled in
>    IPADDR,NETMASK  and  GATEWAY  in  rc.inet1.conf.  I  am using a Belkin
>    router  which  works fine on my X86 laptop under Slackware. I can ping
>    my  router  at [1]192.168.2.1 and I see the WLAN light flash everytime
>    it  gets  pinged.  I  just  can't get online. Not sure what to do from
>    here.

ifconfig and route -n would be the first things to check.

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