Re: Airport iwconfig problem

Hi,

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jon Cortelyou wrote:

> I just installed an Apple Airport pcmcia card (not airport extreme) into my
> G3 iBook. The card was autodetected by the Linux OS (Linux 2.4.22-2f kernel
> -- Yellow Dog 3.0.1) at boot up as eth1. (eth0 is my normal ethernet card
> which isn't plugged in to a network.)
>
> I'm configuring the card to work with my work's wireless network. I setup my
> airport card using:
>
>
> /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid "MyNetworkName" key s:networkpassword
>
> Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth1 ;
> Operation not supported.
>
> /sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid "MyNetworkName" key "2342342AD3423DSD343AAEF"
>
> Also results in the same error.
>
> I know people have gotten airports to work. I curious to what I'm doing
> wrong?
>
> Thanks for any help or suggestions! =)

sorry, but this seems to be the wrong mailing list to ask. It is about
_USB_ devices based on the Atmel AT76C503/505 chipset only. No idea about
a more appropriate place (what's inside the Airport PCMCIA card?), but
Google might point into the right direction.

/Jörg