Success Report with Xohm and Intel 5350 under Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) x86_64

[Inaky Perez-Gonzalez]

On Sunday 01 February 2009, Paul Donohue wrote:

> I am able to connect to Xohm using a built-in Intel 5350 card in a ThinkPad
> laptop running Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) x86_64.

This is great news, thank you!

> Here's what I did:
> ...
> ...
> Intel WiMAX Tools
>   git clone
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/inaky/wimax-tools.git cd
> wimax-tools/
>   Edit configure.ac - add '-m32' to CFLAGS

It should be possible to do this with by calling configure like:

$ CFLAGS=-m32 ./configure <etc, etc>...

without having to re-run the bootstrap all the time

[applies also to the configuration of the network service].

> ...
>    (The daemon will crash if wimaxd.pid already exists, so make sure it
> doesn't exist before starting the daemon) /etc/init.d/wimax start

The next release also fixes this one.

> Connect to Xohm
>   wimaxcu status
>   wimaxcu ron
>   wimaxcu scan
>   wimaxcu connect network 4
>   dhclient wmx0
>   wimaxcu status link
>   wimaxcu status connect

Superb :)

-- 
Inaky