Hi Brice
Ok, it works great, thanks for your help!
Sylvain OBEGI
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----- Original Message -----
From: Brice D Ruth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 4:53 PM
Subject: Re: iBook and XFree + French Keyboard + AirPort
> Hi Sylvain,
>
> I can't really help you with the first two questions - sorry ;(
>
> As for airport stuff, the first place to start is loading the module
> that supports the airport card, airport.o - the maintainer of this code
> is Ben Herrenschmidt, his site is a good place to start if you start
> running into problems.
>
> You'll also need the iwtools package - this package works similarly to
> ifconfig, with the distinction being its configuration of wireless
> capabilities. Once you have a system that loads the airport module
> correctly (which Mandrake should - I didn't have any problems with it)
> something to the following effect should get things going for you:
>
> /sbin/modprobe airport
> /sbin/ifconfig eth1 up
> /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid webprojkt rate 5.5M
> /sbin/dhcpcd -d eth1
>
> The first line loads the airport driver. The second line brings up the
> interface, the third line configures its wireless capabilities - my
> airport base station id is 'webprojkt' and I the 'rate 5.5M' is optional
> - this is what I have my speed set to. Finally, running the dhcp client
> retrieves an IP address from the base station - if you don't have DHCP
> enabled on your base station, you'll have to use ifconfig to configure
> the broadcast/netmask/IP address of the interface as well as setting
> things like DNS servers, default routes, etc.
>
> I don't use WEP on my network, so if you need WEP, you'll need to check
> out the various resources on line - just search for WEP and airport and
> Linux and you should find some decent pages.
>
> HTH
> Brice
>
> Sylvain OBEGI wrote:
>
> >Hello
> >Does someone use XFree with a new iBook? With the latest files it doesn't
> >work on my iBook..
> >
> >Does someone use (I think i will copy and paste 'Does someone use' from
now
> >;-) French layout for keyboard? For me q=a and a=a.. So I can't write 'q'
> >(not cool to do rpm -qa :-)
> >
> >By the way, where do I find informations on how to configure a wireless
> >network (airport) ?
> >
> >Thanks for your help
> >
> >Sylvain OBEGI
> >Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >www.vtr-hardware.com - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >ICQ : 661913
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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