Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Network Configuration & Wireless Driver

[yuriwho <yu...@ma...>]

Bruce,

	Is it possible that when you re-booted, your Airport card connected to 
the Campus connection? Right now, the WirelessDriver only supports 128 
bit connections with the Orinoco Gold card, it may be that your campus 
network has 40/64 bit encryption and you are unable to connect with the 
WirelessDriver/Gold card but the Airport card can connect to the 40/64 
bit encrypted network. The re-boot would have caused your system to 
look for available network interfaces and connect with whatever was 
working. Often the network preference pane will show you the what you 
last configured interface even though it is using a different interface 
to connect currently. To test this you can turn off the airport card 
from the Airport menuextra when you are connected to your campus 
network...I'll wager that this will kill your connection.

I observe similar weird behavior with the network preference pane 
currently. For example, I can boot without the 3rd party card and 
connect with the Airport card, I then power off the Airport card off 
via the menu extra and lose my connection, insert an orinoco silver 
card and open the wirelessdriver prefpane and was connected 
again----however en2 is still greyed out in my network preferences pane 
even though I am connected via en2. I can confirm this with and 
ifconfig -a command from the terminal. The Network prefpane is not 
reflecting the current status of my network interface.

I think you have identified a bug in the network prefpane.

Y


On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 09:42  PM, Bruce Ristow wrote:

> Yuriwho wrote
>
> "I summarized a method for getting the driver installed a several days 
> ago. There should be no reason to log on as root to install it, 
> however you are correct that the installer should be improved (it will 
> be--just wait a little while). The real problem is that most people do 
> not provide accurate descriptions of their problems (e.g. you provide 
> very little description) and most of the problems are actually network 
> configuration / access point configuration problems rather than 
> wirelessdriver problems."
>
> My TiPB 500MHz equipped with an internal Airport Card and a Lucent 
> Technology Ornico Gold card (the Lucnet card in the PC port yields 
> much better range; I haven't gotten around to opening the PB to remove 
> Airport Card) is running OS X 10.2 using the b5.1 driver. Works fine. 
> When I'm close enough to the wireless base station for the internal 
> card to get a signal too, I can switch from one to the other. Both are 
> working.
>
> I took the PB to the library at a local college where I'm an 
> authorized user and had the same problem as others are reporting on 
> the list. This has to be a problem with Apple network settings not the 
> the b5.1 driver.
>
> This is what happened. The Lucent card was the active network device 
> when I removed it ("Power off card"  is the active item in the menu 
> bar just below the grayed out "Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE" 
> identifier.  When "Power off card" is chosen the lights on the card 
> turn off and the menu bar icon disappears. I put the PB to sleep, went 
> to the library, woke the computer up, and reinserted the Lucent card.
>
> The Network configuration panel opened and the new network "College 
> Library" appeared in the "Connect to wireless network named:" box. 
> There was no signal strength. An examination of the Network 
> Preferences panel showed under the Ethernet Adapter (en2) choice with 
> Configure: Using DHCP that the PB had a self-assigned, 169.254.213.12 
> address and a 255.255.0.0 subnet mask. I could not get a signal nor 
> could I get a legitimate IP address.
>
> I created a new location calling it "College" and tried everything 
> again. No go. No signal.
>
> I rebooted the computer. Everything worked. I had signal. I had a 
> legitimate IP address. I was connected.
>
> Why did the reboot work? I don't know. The Internet Connect utility 
> only lists Airport, Internal Modem, and IrDA Modem Port in the 
> "Configuration:" box. Is OS X confused by my configuration with both 
> an Airport Card and a Lucent PC card? Why isn't the Lucent in the 
> Internet Connect configuration list. If I turn Airport off, I get a 
> message "You do not have an active modem, Airport, or PPPoE network 
> port configuration.
>
> On the Network preferences panel with Network Port Configurations 
> shown, I have Ethernet Adaptor (en2), AirPort, Built-in Ethernet, 
> Internal Modem, and IrDa Modem Port listed and checked.
>
> Since returning home, I have created a "Home" location. I get the no 
> signal, local IP address problem when moving and find that Powering 
> off card, removing it,  and reinserting it solves the problem. i 
> haven't had to reboot.
>
> Comments by yuriwho or someone? Is this the driver or a network 
> preferences/configuration problem possibly caused by my dual wireless 
> card configuration?
>
> ---bwr
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