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From: MusOX <mu...@mu...> - 2003-03-06 19:39:20
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I created a web page that documented my experinece to get the WirelessDriver working and wanted everyone's opinion/comments. Is there something I'm missing or should add that could be helpful to new individuals as a reference guide? http://www.musox.com/macosx/wirelessdriver.html Justin -- Imagine a world without hypothetical situations http://www.musox.com |
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From: Stacy W. R. <st...@st...> - 2003-03-06 06:01:21
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John, Sorry I forgot to mention that I logged in as the root user to delete the files. Stacy At 1:54 PM -0600 3/5/03, John W. Grubb wrote: >Stacy Rosenstock's instructions worked perfectly, with one deviation. To >delete the files, I had to boot into OS 9 first. Even with permissions >adjusted, I couldn't delete them in OS X. But when I rebooted, I immediately >saw the LED's on the Orinoco Silver card blink once and I received a message >that a new ethernet adapter was found. I opened the Network panel, chose it >with DHCP and clicked Apply Now. > >I now have wireless in my laptop again and can surf on my campus' wireless >network. > >Thank you so much. >-- >John W. Grubb >Director of Communications >LSU College of Basic Sciences >338 Choppin Hall >Baton Rouge, LA 70803 >225-578-2935 FAX 225-578-8826 > >Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments >that take our breath away. > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger >for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and >disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX >and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com >_______________________________________________ >Wirelessdriver-support mailing list >Wir...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wirelessdriver-support |
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From: Nils S. <ni...@cy...> - 2003-03-05 20:12:34
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That's great. When I read this I think I've seen it before on this list, when 10.2 was released. /Nils >After nearly a week of trying to install wirelessdriver on a >WallStreet and no hint of EN1 or EN2 I consulted the OSX gurus on >Broadbandreports.com > >russotto suggested I try removing /System/Library/Extensions.mkext >and /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache. then reboot. > >Sure enough, after the restart, I inserted ,I inserted my Skyline >and the light began to blink, Then I was finally able to select EN1 >in in the Network System Preferences. > >Hope this can help anyone else having problems with the installation. > >Stacy |
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From: John W. G. <cx...@ls...> - 2003-03-05 19:55:25
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Stacy Rosenstock's instructions worked perfectly, with one deviation. To delete the files, I had to boot into OS 9 first. Even with permissions adjusted, I couldn=B9t delete them in OS X. But when I rebooted, I immediatel= y saw the LED's on the Orinoco Silver card blink once and I received a messag= e that a new ethernet adapter was found. I opened the Network panel, chose it with DHCP and clicked Apply Now. I now have wireless in my laptop again and can surf on my campus' wireless network. Thank you so much. --=20 John W. Grubb Director of Communications LSU College of Basic Sciences 338 Choppin Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 225-578-2935 FAX 225-578-8826 Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. |
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From: Stacy W. R. <st...@st...> - 2003-03-05 16:54:19
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After nearly a week of trying to install wirelessdriver on a WallStreet and no hint of EN1 or EN2 I consulted the OSX gurus on Broadbandreports.com russotto suggested I try removing /System/Library/Extensions.mkext and /System/Library/Extensions.kextcache. then reboot. Sure enough, after the restart, I inserted ,I inserted my Skyline and the light began to blink, Then I was finally able to select EN1 in in the Network System Preferences. Hope this can help anyone else having problems with the installation. Stacy |
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From: Stacy W. R. <st...@st...> - 2003-03-04 16:29:14
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Nils, Thanks. The Install PDF file shows WirelessConfig in the top menu as well as the Others Menu but, it also shows Fruit installed. Maybe they used Fruit to put it in the upper window? I still haven't had a successful install so I un-installed, double checked it with Find FIle, and then ran Disk Utility to verify permissions. Turns out I needed to reset the permissions but that doesn't seem to resolved my install issues. So after yet another attempt at installing Wirelessdriver I ran the Troubleshooting script Here's a sniplet from the results ### wireless driver files installed drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Mar 4 10:34 WirelessDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Jan 29 21:54 IOPCCardFamily.kext 2003-03-04 10:49:55.747 defaults[485] The domain/default pair of (loginwindow, AutoLaunchedApplicationDictionary) does not exist /Volumes/WirelessDriver beta 5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting Info.command: WirelessConfig: command not found logout I don't know what this actually means but something seems to be missing. Could you or someone else post a list of files that should be installed and possibly the directories where they should be located? Stacy |
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From: David L. <lev...@he...> - 2003-03-04 16:13:37
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Hello- I installed version 1.0.0b5 of the wireless driver on my powerbook for use with a WaveLan Silver card. I couldn't get it to list the card as an ethernet interface and ran the uninstaller. Since then I've been getting kernel panics in two situations: 1) When changing the power supply while the computer is asleep. If I put it to sleep while it is using the power adapter, unplug it so it's using the battery, and wake it, panic occurs. Same if switching from battery to AC. 2) I inserted a Memorex PC card compact flash adapter, and it gave a panic. What should I do now? David Levinson Systems Librarian and Academic Technology Specialist Lake Forest College Lake Forest, IL |
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From: David C. <dch...@vi...> - 2003-03-04 11:45:35
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After installing the beta4 wireless driver on my PowerBook G3 (bronze) I can connect to my network for 1 minute then loose connection. I can see that this is because of some king of arp problem on my laptop. If I run arp -d 10.0.0.249 I can access my server again until 1 minute passes again. If I switch to my ethernet connection all is ok, this only happens on my wireless link. I have a Orinoko gold card (Lucent chipset) which seems to work ok in OS9 on the same machine. Looks like some kind of arp poisoning problem, can anyone help. David |
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From: Nils S. <ni...@cy...> - 2003-03-04 09:42:37
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My wireless config has always been in the other section, and I believe it's supposed to be there. If I don't remember wrong, after a first installation you should use the uninstall option and then install again. There was something that failed in the first install process and I think that this solved the problem for many users. I have a PB Bronze keyboard, Proxim Skyline card and the first version of the Airport BS. I must have had luck, I only installed once under 10.2 and it worked after a restart of my Airport BS. Then I've succesfully installed all OS X upgrades up to 10.2.4, and the wireless driver is still working. /Nils >I think I've tried just about everything imaginable but I just can't get Wirelessdriver to install on my WallStreet which is running OS 10.2.4 > >So far I've enabled the root user. Then I removed the card, logged in as root, and went through the install process. When I restarted the computer, WirelessConfig appears in "other" portion of System Preferences but not in the upper right hand next to network. > >Then when I try to set the port, EN1 and EN2 don't appear and WirelessConfig won't accept any text. It doesn't seem to have a plist either. > >I just updated OS X a week or two and this is the first time I've tried to install Wirelessdriver. Has anyone had any luck with first time installations with this system upgrade? > > >Stacy > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. TotalView can help you find your way. Available on major UNIX and Linux platforms. Try it free. www.etnus.com >_______________________________________________ >Wirelessdriver-support mailing list >Wir...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wirelessdriver-support |
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From: Stacy W. R. <st...@st...> - 2003-03-03 21:54:12
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I think I've tried just about everything imaginable but I just can't get Wirelessdriver to install on my WallStreet which is running OS 10.2.4 So far I've enabled the root user. Then I removed the card, logged in as root, and went through the install process. When I restarted the computer, WirelessConfig appears in "other" portion of System Preferences but not in the upper right hand next to network. Then when I try to set the port, EN1 and EN2 don't appear and WirelessConfig won't accept any text. It doesn't seem to have a plist either. I just updated OS X a week or two and this is the first time I've tried to install Wirelessdriver. Has anyone had any luck with first time installations with this system upgrade? Stacy |
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From: Nick S. <ns...@qu...> - 2003-03-03 06:18:33
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On Sunday, March 2, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Jonathan Zacks wrote: > 1) Are there any mailing lists that are dedicated to discussing the > Linksys (or other brands) 802.11g cards in Macs? Or discussion boards? You can try the comment areas at osxhax.com > > 2) The soon-to-be-released MacSense universal driver that will support > Intersil-based 802.11g PC cards won't work with the WPC54G, will it? Probably not. > > 3) Problem: PowerBook G4s (400 MHz & 1 GHz) both freeze on startup if > the Linksys WPC54G is IN the computer, no matter if it was in when the > computer was on and then shut down, or if it was inserted when the > computer was already shut down. When the computer is already on, I can > put in the PC card, and it works fine, connects to the internet, etc. > However, if it's in when it's started up, the circular thingie stops > spinning after a few minutes, and it just sits there, visually frozen. > I've waited about 5 minutes after that point to make sure it was > frozen, should I wait longer? No. If the daisy stops at all, that's bad news. > There is no internal AirPort card installed in one of the machines, > and there is one on the other machine, it seems to make no difference. > The card works because I did the "Infamous AirPort Extreme hack" from > www.osxhax.com. The annoying part of this problem is that when I > insert the card after the computer has started up, I have to open the > Network prefs in System Preferences and apply the settings, and even > then it won't automatically connect to the network, I have to select > it from the AirPort menu. Yeah, that's par for the course. A couple other folks have reported boot-time problems. I've never experienced them. Have you tried clearing the kext cache? In any event, this is all probably better off discussed at osxhax.com, as it's sort of off-topic for this list. > > 4) Bluetooth seems to be messed up when the Linksys card is in and > using the external D-Link Bluetooth adapter. Anyone else experiencing > this? That's a new one on me. The two drivers should have nothing to do with each other. > > --jonathan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Wirelessdriver-support mailing list > Wir...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wirelessdriver-support |
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From: Jonathan Z. <jo...@po...> - 2003-03-02 18:56:35
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1) Are there any mailing lists that are dedicated to discussing the Linksys (or other brands) 802.11g cards in Macs? Or discussion boards? 2) The soon-to-be-released MacSense universal driver that will support Intersil-based 802.11g PC cards won't work with the WPC54G, will it? 3) Problem: PowerBook G4s (400 MHz & 1 GHz) both freeze on startup if the Linksys WPC54G is IN the computer, no matter if it was in when the computer was on and then shut down, or if it was inserted when the computer was already shut down. When the computer is already on, I can put in the PC card, and it works fine, connects to the internet, etc. However, if it's in when it's started up, the circular thingie stops spinning after a few minutes, and it just sits there, visually frozen. I've waited about 5 minutes after that point to make sure it was frozen, should I wait longer? There is no internal AirPort card installed in one of the machines, and there is one on the other machine, it seems to make no difference. The card works because I did the "Infamous AirPort Extreme hack" from www.osxhax.com. The annoying part of this problem is that when I insert the card after the computer has started up, I have to open the Network prefs in System Preferences and apply the settings, and even then it won't automatically connect to the network, I have to select it from the AirPort menu. 4) Bluetooth seems to be messed up when the Linksys card is in and using the external D-Link Bluetooth adapter. Anyone else experiencing this? --jonathan |
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From: Michael B. <mb...@zo...> - 2003-03-01 11:44:19
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On Friday, February 28, 2003, at 09:34 AM, Mark Warner wrote: > Hello, > I've decided to go with another wireless driver and would really > like to > remove all traces of this one. The removal utility distributed through > the > web site does not seem to change anything. I still have a folder called > WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane and the application SigMeter sitting in > my > applications folder. These cannot be thrown away manually, as they > request > the root user. As far as I can remember, I have never messed with the > system > at the root level, so I have no idea what the permissions may be to do > this. > Has anyone out there written a better uninstall script or know of a way > around this problem? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Hi Mark, you'll probably get more sophisticated answers to your questions than mine, but I hope the following will also be helpful. Remember that you indeed were required to supply your 'root' password to install the driver. One reason for this is that for it to run at the system level, the driver needs those privileges. So even though the 'uninstaller' has apparently failed in its job (no change after logout/login?), you can still remove the driver, you just may need to do it from the command line using 'sudo' to authenticate your status as administrator of your computer. Anything free comes with no guarantee, and the traffic on this list proves that the details of using this driver are not flawless and lots of users have troubles getting everything to show up at first. I agree with all you have said, and unfortunately this is one of the inconveniences to be endured for the potential benefit from open source software. Having said that, if you are in need of more precise instructions for getting these things removed, it would be my pleasure to work with you further by email. I have gotten such excellent support from the various email forums for the open source projects that I use, that I'm just itching to provide some real help to another user when possible. Kind Regards, --Michael |
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From: John G. <cx...@ls...> - 2003-02-28 16:56:03
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My Lucent Orinoco Silver card will not enable with the drivers on a WallStreet G3 (upgraded with BlueChip G3/500). I ran the troubleshooting script and the output is pasted below. When I open the Network Pane, the EN1 option is grayed out and I also do not get a power light on the card while in OS X, only in OS 9 (so I know the card works). Can you help? John Grubb ******************* Last login: Fri Feb 28 10:48:01 on ttyp1 /Volumes/WirelessDriver\ beta\ 5.1/Utilities/TroubWelcome to Darwin! leshooting\ Info.command; exit [ch338h3:~] cxjohn% /Volumes/WirelessDriver\ beta\ 5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting\ Info.command; exit ### system info ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.2.4 BuildVersion: 6I32 Darwin ch338h3.basc.lsu.edu 6.4 Darwin Kernel Version 6.4: Wed Jan 29 18:50:42 PST 2003; root:xnu/xnu-344.26.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC Power Macintosh powerpc ppc750 ### wireless driver files installed drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Feb 28 10:44 WirelessDriver.kext drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 6 00:04 IOPCCardFamily.kext {Path = "/Library/PreferencePanes/WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane/"; }, ### wirelesscard info | | | "VersionOneInfo" = ("Lucent Technologies","WaveLAN/IEEE","V$ | +-o pccard@13 <class IOPCIDevice> | | | "device_type" = <"pccard"> | | | "name" = <"pccard"> | | | +-o pccard156,2@0,0 <class IOPCCard16Device> | | | "IOName" = "pccard156,2" | +-o pccard@13,1 <class IOPCIDevice> | | "device_type" = <"pccard"> | | "name" = <"pccard"> ### 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 en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet6 fe80::205:2ff:fe01:b876%en0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4 inet 130.39.161.86 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast 130.39.163.255 ether 00:05:02:01:b8:76 media: autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) status: active supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> ### wd command line tool status /Volumes/WirelessDriver beta 5.1/Utilities/Troubleshooting Info.command: WirelessConfig: command not found -- |
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From: Mark W. <mw...@UD...> - 2003-02-28 14:34:02
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Hello,
I've decided to go with another wireless driver and would really like to
remove all traces of this one. The removal utility distributed through the
web site does not seem to change anything. I still have a folder called
WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane and the application SigMeter sitting in my
applications folder. These cannot be thrown away manually, as they request
the root user. As far as I can remember, I have never messed with the system
at the root level, so I have no idea what the permissions may be to do this.
Has anyone out there written a better uninstall script or know of a way
around this problem? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
--
Mark E. Warner
Assistant Professor
University of Delaware
College of Marine Studies
700 Pilottown Rd.
Lewes, DE 19958
USA
Phone: 302-645-4365
Fax: 302-645-4028
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From: Chris B. <ct...@fo...> - 2003-02-27 06:29:16
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Hey guys, I tried taking a look in the archives before asking this question, however I couldn't find an answer. I installed the latest release, rebooted and popped in the Orinoco card. No go, no happy lights on the card and according to the software no signal either. However my airport card is happy as a clam. I turned off AirPort but no change. My machine is a 1ghz 15" TiBook. OS 10.2.4. Any ideas? I can't come up with anything, and I could be missing the obvious. Chris |
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From: MusOX <mu...@mu...> - 2003-02-26 22:20:12
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Hello all,=0D =0D First I would like to document how I was able to get the wireless network s= etup.=0D =0D Setup:=0D I am using an Orinoco Gold card I installed the 10.0.0b5.1 WirelessDriver d= river on a PowerBook G3 333 Lombard running 10.2.4 by clicking on the indiv= idual installers located in the =93Installers=94 folder. There was an issu= e in that the PreferencePane was installed in /System/Library/PreferencePan= es/. I just typed the command in the terminal (sudo mv =93/System/Library/= PreferencePanes/WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane=94 /Library/PreferencePanes/)= When I installed the ConfigApps.pkg it placed the SigMeter and the Wirel= essConfig in a custom folder (Not the default Applications folder). =0D =0D The next step was to install the Utilities by the command (sudo cp =93/Volu= mes/WirelessDriver beta 5.1/Utilities/WirelessConfig=94 /usr/local/bin/) an= d copied the Troubleshooting Info.command to the same folder as the SigMete= r and WirelessConfig applications were located.=0D =0D When I first executed the Troubleshooting Info.command I noticed I didn=92t= receive all of the information it was requesting so I modified the command= on line 17 to read =93ls -la /System/Library/Extensions | grep AirPort=94 = (there is a capital =93P=94 to make this work)=0D =0D My Access Point is D-Link614+, which also allows my wife=92s Windows XP ma= chine to connect via a D-Link PCI card.=0D =0D =0D =0D Issues:=0D I cannot enable WEP (64 or 128) even though the FAQ on the WirelessDriver H= omepage states that 128 WEP is supported on the Orinoco Gold card. If I do= , the card cannot acquire an IP from the AP (DHCP on the LAN side is enable= d). When I had WEP enabled and executed the Troubleshooting Info.command, = it still stated at the bottom =93WEP Enabled: NO=94. My work around is usi= ng MAC address filtering so only the two specific machines that I want can = access the AP. As a FYI, the Firewall is disabled.=0D =0D The SigMeter doesn=92t work. I did see the message from Tom Pollard about = the missing SigStrength.nib file, however, when I attempted to replicate hi= s solution it didn=92t work. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?= thread_id=3D1669293&forum_id=3D3055=0D =0D =0D Questions:=0D Is there a =93Stumbler=94 that can search for SSIDs. MacStumbler kept quit= ing upon startup, iStumbler said it only supported AirPort Cards at this ti= me, KisMac didn=92t work, and I can=92t compile AirSnort b/c Fink is not le= tting me download the GTK+ after I installed Apple=92s X11.=0D =0D Could/is the WEP issue be resolved by a new AP? I noticed that some is req= uesting D-Link DWL 650+ support and in the faq.html on the WirelessDriver H= omepage there is =93NO=94 on both support and WEP.=0D =0D Wireless Card address increasing. When I first started to test the driver,= I borrowed a Linksis card to see if the driver worked. I then borrowed an= Orinoco Card to see if that worked and began troubleshooting. I now have = a third card (Orinoco) and I have noticed that the BSD names keep on increa= sing. The Linksis was originally en1, the 1st Orinoco card was en2, now I= =92m on en3. Is there any way to remove the old card BSD names so that my = current card reads en1. Guess I=92m just picky on that=85=0D =0D =0D Any replies/comments would be greatly appreciated on both of these question= s. My Troubleshooting Info.command results are available at http://www.mus= ox.com/macosx/802.11_info.txt=0D =0D Thanks,=0D =0D Justin |
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From: Rummel, J. <Jus...@ve...> - 2003-02-26 22:02:23
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Hello all, First I would like to document how I was able to get the wireless network setup. Setup: I am using an Orinoco Gold card I installed the 10.0.0b5.1 WirelessDriver driver on a PowerBook G3 333 Lombard running 10.2.4 by clicking on the individual installers located in the "Installers" folder. There was an issue in that the PreferencePane was installed in /System/Library/PreferencePanes/. I just typed the command in the terminal (sudo mv "/System/Library/PreferencePanes/WirelessDriver PPane.prefPane" /Library/PreferencePanes/). When I installed the ConfigApps.pkg it placed the SigMeter and the WirelessConfig in a custom folder (Not the default Applications folder). The next step was to install the Utilities by the command (sudo cp "/Volumes/WirelessDriver beta 5.1/Utilities/WirelessConfig" /usr/local/bin/) and copied the Troubleshooting Info.command to the same folder as the SigMeter and WirelessConfig applications were located. When I first executed the Troubleshooting Info.command I noticed I didn't receive all of the information it was requesting so I modified the command on line 17 to read "ls -la /System/Library/Extensions | grep AirPort" (there is a capital "P" to make this work) My Access Point is D-Link614+, which also allows my wife's Windows XP machine to connect via a D-Link PCI card. Issues: I cannot enable WEP (64 or 128) even though the FAQ on the WirelessDriver Homepage states that 128 WEP is supported on the Orinoco Gold card. If I do, the card cannot acquire an IP from the AP (DHCP on the LAN side is enabled). When I had WEP enabled and executed the Troubleshooting Info.command, it still stated at the bottom "WEP Enabled: NO". My work around is using MAC address filtering so only the two specific machines that I want can access the AP. As a FYI, the Firewall is disabled. The SigMeter doesn't work. I did see the message from Tom Pollard about the missing SigStrength.nib file, however, when I attempted to replicate his solution it didn't work. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1669293&forum_id=3055 <http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1669293&forum_id=3055> Questions: Is there a "Stumbler" that can search for SSIDs. MacStumbler kept quiting upon startup, iStumbler said it only supported AirPort Cards at this time, KisMac didn't work, and I can't compile AirSnort b/c Fink is not letting me download the GTK+ after I installed Apple's X11. Could/is the WEP issue be resolved by a new AP? I noticed that some is requesting D-Link DWL 650+ support and in the faq.html on the WirelessDriver Homepage there is "NO" on both support and WEP. Wireless Card address increasing. When I first started to test the driver, I borrowed a Linksis card to see if the driver worked. I then borrowed an Orinoco Card to see if that worked and began troubleshooting. I now have a third card (Orinoco) and I have noticed that the BSD names keep on increasing. The Linksis was originally en1, the 1st Orinoco card was en2, now I'm on en3. Is there any way to remove the old card BSD names so that my current card reads en1. Guess I'm just picky on that... Any replies/comments would be greatly appreciated on both of these questions. My Troubleshooting Info.command results are available at http://www.musox.com/macosx/802.11_info.txt <http://www.musox.com/macosx/802.11_info.txt> Thanks, Justin |
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From: <ro...@sp...> - 2003-02-26 19:20:34
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On onsdag, feb 26, 2003, at 17:13 Europe/Stockholm, Vincent Cayenne=20 wrote: > At 2:13p +0100 2003.01.10, Robert Engstr=F6m responded: >> Of course you can. It is really simple. Create a new Location in >> network control panel called Airport and enter your home config in >> the network control panel and save. Then create a new Location >> called Windows WiFI or whatever you want and put in the new network >> settings and save. Now under the new Apple Menu you have an option >> called Location. To switch just select a new location and you are >> surfing. :) > > Robert, I'm confused. Don't you have to specify the name of the > wireless network, its SSID? Does that get saved with each location or > do you have select the wireless pref pane and enter the relevant name > after each switch? Or is there a new driver that detects and presents > a list as the Airport does? The settings affect only the choice and settings of network ports=20 including Airport settings. It doesn't save the settings for the=20 wireless config prefpane for the wireless driver. It has to be set=20 manually for each different wireless network. I guess that if there was=20= a way to make the wireless config pref pane a plug in to the Network=20 preferences (an extra tab similar to how Airport settings work) then it=20= would be possible to save the setting in different locations. //Rob -- =20 To be is to do. - Socrates To do is to be. - Sartre Do be do be do. - Sinatra |
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From: Vincent C. <vca...@ma...> - 2003-02-26 16:13:15
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>On fredag, jan 10, 2003, at 03:15 Europe/Stockholm, Bill Nash wrote: >>I have my D-Link card on a Bronze Keyboard Powerbook running OS >>10.2.3 working fine with an Airport Base station. I was also able >>to "hack" a friends Windows computer while sitting at his dining >>room table. But to do that I had to change my config in the >>preferences pane and then change it back when I got home. Is there >>some way to "save" a wireless config and switch around between >>saved configs? We have several "open" hotspots here in Austin that >>I would like to try out. At 2:13p +0100 2003.01.10, Robert Engstr=F6m responded: >Of course you can. It is really simple. Create a new Location in >network control panel called Airport and enter your home config in >the network control panel and save. Then create a new Location >called Windows WiFI or whatever you want and put in the new network >settings and save. Now under the new Apple Menu you have an option >called Location. To switch just select a new location and you are >surfing. :) Robert, I'm confused. Don't you have to specify the name of the wireless network, its SSID? Does that get saved with each location or do you have select the wireless pref pane and enter the relevant name after each switch? Or is there a new driver that detects and presents a list as the Airport does? -- 'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described] |
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From: Nick S. <ns...@qu...> - 2003-02-25 17:54:15
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Robert Engstr=F6m wrote: >=20 > On onsdag, feb 19, 2003, at 13:23 Europe/Stockholm, Robert Nicholson wr= ote: >=20 >> So if I've got a DVI 800 powerbook and I go out and buy an Extreme=20 >> basestation will I be able to use the LinkSYS Extreme PC Card? >> >> It's not clear to me exactly what Nick has got working. You can use a Linksys WPC54G in CardBus equipped PBooks or a WMP54G in=20 PCI equipped desktop machines. Such cards behave exactly the same as=20 Apple's AE module. >> >> I'm trying to decide b/w going "B" or "G" in my basestation purchase. Personally, I'd buy a Linksys WAP54G. They're half the price of the=20 cheaper Apple product, and from what I've heard they work a WHOLE lot=20 better. >> I don't think I see any reason to upgrade my 800 PB for at least=20 >> another year. >=20 >=20 > Apples Airport Extreme uses regular PC cards similar to how Wireless=20 > Driver works. No, it uses a Mini-PCI-like device in a different type of proprietary slo= t. > All you have to do is to add support for your PC Card to=20 > use Apples Airport Extreme driver. To do it edit the Info.plist file=20 > inside /System/Library/Extensions/AppleAirport2.kext/Contents/ folder=20 > and add your PC Card name to the list. They broke this in 10.2.4. It is still possible to use Broadcom-based=20 802.11g CardBus and PCI cards (Linksys and Buffalo are the two most=20 popular vendors) using The Infamous Hack (see http://www.osxhax.com/).=20 There are some caveats, however. The biggest is that Apple has tried=20 once already to disable this sort of hack and failed. If they want, they=20 can start a battle similar to past battles over copy protection. In such=20 a war, we will always be in a reactive position, waiting for Apple's=20 next move, and then waiting for someone to counter it. At least until someone writes a 3rd party driver. The bad news there is=20 that Broadcom is *notorious* for shutting out open-source driver=20 developers. Linux message boards are littered with this: Q. What about drivers for my (insert Broadcom product here)? A. There aren't any. Try whining to Broadcom to get them to release=20 specs for us. Feh. >=20 > <key>IONameMatch</key> > <array> > <string>pci106b,4e</string> > </array> >=20 > You should add another string with your PC Cards name and then save the= =20 > file. It should then recognize the card as a Airport Extreme card and=20 > work as an Apple built in card. To get the name of your card you have t= o=20 > insert it in the PB. Then run this command in the console. >=20 > ioreg -l | grep pccard You actually have to do 'ioreg -l -w 0' and look for the first=20 "compatible" entry for the device who's chip has a 14e4 vendor id, but=20 all of this is covered at http://www.osxhax.com/ |
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From: Vincent C. <vca...@ma...> - 2003-02-25 17:35:49
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At 2:19p +1100 2002.12.01, Ken Simpson wrote: >There is a CL utility that will report networks, but not strength of >the signal Do you remember the name of the product? Or, better yet, did you remember where you got it? TIA. -- 'tis as said. [Reality is defined by being described] |
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From: Lee P. <li...@le...> - 2003-02-25 04:12:29
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:43:55AM -0800, tim murphy wrote: > Can u guys running 10.2.4 and using the orinoco gold setup tell me more > about your setup? I can't get it to work for me at all. > the control panel is all grayed out. I'm still on driver 1.0b2, which is still working fine with my Lombard running MacOS 10.2.4 with the Orinoco Gold card. After installing 10.2 I applied the second method described in message <A19...@ma...> to this list. |
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From: Julian B. <ju...@fl...> - 2003-02-24 22:41:22
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Hi All Just to say after a bit of fiddling I got the beta 10.0.0b5 driver to work on a Powerbook G3 Pismo / OS 10.2(6C115), Asante FriendlyNET AeroLAN PCMCIA. With a straight install I could the System pref pane but none of the text fields were active. I could not install the PrefPane.pkg - told I could not install in the System:Library:PreferencePanes One of these two things or the combination worked: 1) Logged on as root, and reinstalled all four pkg's 2) Installed PrefPane.pkg into Library: as the Troubleshooting info suggested this should be. On a different machine so can't include report as I have too install all software etc and I knew if I didn't do it now then it would slip! - but if it would be useful email me and I'll post it Big thanks to the authors for keeping my wife's laptop going for another OS version! Jules |
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From: Nick P. <np...@sp...> - 2003-02-23 16:13:20
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I installed the driver (Beta 5.1) under an earlier version of 10.2 and upgraded to 10.2.4 later. At 11:43 AM -0800 2/21/03, tim murphy wrote: >Can u guys running 10.2.4 and using the orinoco gold setup tell me more >about your setup? I can't get it to work for me at all. >the control panel is all grayed out. > > >thanks >tim > >On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Nick Pilch wrote: > >> Still working great for me in 10.2.4 (older Orinoco gold card, > > Powerbook G4 667). -- Nick Pilch / np...@sp... |
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