On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:13:46PM -0600, Terrence Oblak wrote:
> I'm running Mandrake 8.0 on a tiPowerbook (much faster than OS X ever did).
> My work has a wireless network using a Linksys Wireless Access Point.
> Does Apple's Airport card communicate with other WAPs or is it designed to
> work with the Air Base Station only? I've been told that it will work with
> other WAPs and that it won't.
Yes I have used my Titanium's Airport card with Lucent RG1000 access
points, SMC's and Linksys'.
> My other question is, will Mandrake support the Airport card?
Yes. First make sure the correct kernel modules are loaded, in this
order:
insmod hermes
insmod oricono
insmod airport
Then just use netconf and set eth0 to use kernel module airport. Then
use iwconfig if you're using WEP (encryption keys/passwords) (in the wireless-tools
package if you don't have it installed) like so:
iwconfig eth0 essid <networkname> key <networkkey>
If you have a ascii password append s: to the front of it. For example
if your ascii password is "abcde" and the network name is "wlan" you would use:
iwconfig eth0 essid wlan key s:abcde
HTH
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