on 10/08/04 18:00, Mikael Bystr�m at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Laurent, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >> On 10/08/04 10:13, "Mikael Bystr�m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> If I lose contact with my airport hardware (older Apple airport), how do >>> I best reconnect to it? Am I best off unloading and reloading the related >>> kext with kextload? Is this AppleAirPort.kext in my case? There's also an >>> AppleAirPort2.kext file, but I kinda suspect that is for Extreme cards, >>> which mine is not. >>> >>> When I run >>> sudo kextload -t /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirPort.kext >>> in the Terminal for diagnostics it says this kext is already loaded. When >>> I run kextunload on the same the unloading fails. Restarting the OS >>> helps, but it would be nice to avoid that. >> >> I don't think that losing contact with the Base Station has anything to do >> with the kernel extension. It has more to do with the relative poor >> reception that is well known for Titanium PowerBook and other environmental >> factors. Try to sit closer to the base station, move the base station to a >> better location or, depending on the actual base station model you have, you >> might be able to an antenna booster... > > I apologize for being unclear on that what I meant is that I lose contact > with my airport card, not the base station.
You're losing contact with the AirPort card itself? Have you opened your PowerBook (removing the keyboard maybe?) to see if it had came loose? -Laurent. -- ============================================================================ Laurent Daudelin AIM/iChat: LaurentDaudelin <http://nemesys.dyndns.org> Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooks's Law prov.: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting development work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and author of "The Mythical Man-Month" (Addison-Wesley, 1975, ISBN 0-201-00650-2), an excellent early book on software engineering. -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
