10.04 iBook G3 WiFi help

[WackyRicanMan]

My wifi picks up networks and my network but it wont connect to them just stops trying. I'm connected through my eithernet cord right now

ibook g3 600mhz/640mb/80gb
regular AirPort card not EXTREME

-laptop:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: UniNorth/Pangea GMAC (Sun GEM)
       vendor: Apple Computer Inc.
       physical id: f
       bus info: pci@0002:20:0f.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 00
       serial: 00:03:93:9d:24:e0
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: bus_master rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sungem driverversion=0.98 duplex=full ip=192.168.2.4 latency=16 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=64 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:41 memory:f5200000-f53fffff memory:f5100000-f51fffff(prefetchable)
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: eth1
       serial: 00:30:65:1f:fb:47
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=orinoco driverversion=0.15 firmware=Lucent/Agere 9.48 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b

I notice it says network DISABLED

any body know how to enable it?

[Feeyo]

Hi,

What about forcing:

sudo ifup eth1

[rokytnji]

Another thing you might want to check is the wireless is enabled in the bios also.

After you ensure that wireless ius turned on in bios. Check if the keyboard wireless hotkeys are not disabling it by looking at rfkill state which Ubuntu 10.04 should have already installed (but I am not sure if it is)

In terminal type in

rfkill help

If shows command not found. Try sudo infront of rfkill help. Id still getting command not found.
Refer to Waterheads below link on how he installed it in Ubuntu 9.04

rfkill - Linux Wireless

Waterheads Link

[twoHats]

For whatever it's worth, iBook wifi, in some models, is know to have problems. I worked on this for a while for a friend, and found changeing channels on the router would sometimes work, and it was so convienient to do

In researching the problem, i found many irate folks on the apple forums, and apple just stonewalling the whole thing.

disgusting...

[cavinsays]

I have the same problem. My wireless just won't turn on in 10.04. It did in 9.10. I dunno what the deal is.

Another thing you might want to check is the wireless is enabled in the bios also.

After you ensure that wireless ius turned on in bios. Check if the keyboard wireless hotkeys are not disabling it by looking at rfkill state which Ubuntu 10.04 should have already installed (but I am not sure if it is)

In terminal type in

rfkill help

If shows command not found. Try sudo infront of rfkill help. Id still getting command not found.
Refer to Waterheads below link on how he installed it in Ubuntu 9.04

iBooks, along with every other PowerPC Mac, do not use BIOS. They use OpenFirmware. Intel Macs use EFI, but when booting Windows/Linux through Boot Camp, create a fake BIOS. Maybe if that were the case, this would be an answer. However, since it's a PPC Mac, it isn't.

Hi,

What about forcing:

sudo ifup eth1

I've tried this as well. It gives me this feedback:

Ignoring unknown interface eth1=eth1.