[Wirelessdriver-support] problem with powerbook g4/500 and wireless driver (troubleshooting output included)

[alex a. <avr...@sp...>]

i'm not sure what this /Library/PreferencePanes directory is supposed 
to point to. when i plug the card in, it stays off. no led's come up or 
anything. i have the "turn card off" option in the menu, but it doesnt 
appear to do anything. rebooting and removing/replacing the card does 
not help the situation.

i have an onboard airport card, im trying to do this to see if i can 
get some better reception.

this card was confirmed working in a dell mumble laptop yesterday, and 
in a thinkpad some months ago.

thanks for your help all.

alex


[scorch:~] alex% ./Troubleshooting\ Info.command

### system info

ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.2.3
BuildVersion:   6G30
Darwin scorch 6.3 Darwin Kernel Version 6.3: Sat Dec 14 03:11:25 PST 
2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.23.obj~4/RELEASE_PPC  Power Macintosh powerpc
ppc7400

### wireless driver files installed

drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel   102 Nov  6 01:04 IOPCCardFamily.kext
ls: /Library/PreferencePanes: No such file or directory
2002-12-31 11:49:35.434 defaults[538]
The domain/default pair of (loginwindow, 
AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary) does not exist

### wirelesscard info

     | |             "VersionOneInfo" = ("Lucent 
Technologies","WaveLAN/IEEE","Version 01.01","")
     | |       +-o pccard156,2@0,0  <class IOPCCard16Device>
     | |             "IOName" = "pccard156,2"

### network info

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en1: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet6 fe80::230:65ff:fe1a:4589%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
         inet 10.1.2.2 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 10.1.255.255
         ether 00:30:65:1a:45:89
         media: autoselect status: active
         supported media: autoselect
en0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,SMART,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         tunnel inet  -->
         ether 00:30:65:bd:e8:a6

### wd command line tool status

2002-12-31 11:49:39.242 WirelessConfig[545] Iterations: 0
WirelessDriver: Couldn't find a WirelessDriver service in registry - is 
the card loaded?
Usage - ./WirelessConfig [-showstatus] or ./WirelessConfig 
[-showstatus] <-netname <network>> [-wepkey <key>] [-keyslot <slot>]
  -netname <name>     Sets the network name - enclose in double quotes
                       if your network contains a space.

  -wepkey <hex key>   Sets your network key, if ommited the network is
                       assumed to not have wep.

  -keyslot <[1-4]>    Sets which keyslot to have your key in. If
                       ommited keyslot 1 is assumed.

  -status             Prints out the network information, includes
                       signal strength.

  -writeprefs         Writes out the options to the preference file in   
                    
~/Library/Preferences/org.noncontinuous.wirelessdriver

With no options set or just the status, ./WirelessConfig will look for 
the preferences made by the preference pane in 
~/Library/Preferences/org.noncontinuous.WirelessDriver.