airport with wpa

[Bob Lounsbury]

I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted to confirm that this is true. If so, I guess I'll have to switch my wireless network to WEP.

Thanks,
Bob

[Geoff Simmons]

Hi Bob,

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:16:58PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card
> does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted to confirm that
> this is true. If so, I guess I'll have to switch my wireless network to WEP.

The original Apple AirPort Card (Hermes/Agere based) is supported by the
orinoco driver in mainline kernels.

This driver received WPA support (currently WPA1+TKIP only) in kernel
2.6.28-rc1.  Firmware is required to be provided, see
http://wiki.debian.org/orinoco for further details.

Geoff


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[Elimar Riesebieter]

* Bob Lounsbury [090906 15:16 -0600]
> I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card
> does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted to confirm that
> this is true. If so, I guess I'll have to switch my wireless network to WEP.

Which airport card do you hve built in? Which machine?

Elimar


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[Bob Lounsbury]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Geoff Simmons <gsimmons@...> wrote:

Hi Bob,

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:16:58PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card
> does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted to confirm that
> this is true. If so, I guess I'll have to switch my wireless network to WEP.

The original Apple AirPort Card (Hermes/Agere based) is supported by the
orinoco driver in mainline kernels.

This driver received WPA support (currently WPA1+TKIP only) in kernel
2.6.28-rc1.  Firmware is required to be provided, see
http://wiki.debian.org/orinoco for further details.

Geoff

Looks like I'll probably just continue to use WEP until Lenny or the next stable release uses the proper kernel. Otherwise, I'll have to pin the kernel down. Also, the wiki didn't mention anything about network-manager which is what I would like to use for network connections, I could use /network/interfaces but my wife uses the laptop as well. So, I rely on network-manager. Thanks for the instructions.

Bob

[Bob Lounsbury]

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 3:29 AM, Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@...> wrote:

* Bob Lounsbury [090906 15:16 -0600]

> I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card
> does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted to confirm that
> this is true. If so, I guess I'll have to switch my wireless network to WEP.

Which airport card do you hve built in? Which machine?

Elimar

It's the original Airport (Hermes I) in an iBook G3.
 

[Geoff Simmons]

Hi Bob,

On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 10:26:11AM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> Looks like I'll probably just continue to use WEP until Lenny or the next
> stable release uses the proper kernel. Otherwise, I'll have to pin the kernel
> down.

You can use a backported 2.6.30 kernel image package via backports.org, as
described in the procedure.  These packages are already pinned to 1 by use of
"NotAutomatic: yes" in the repository's Release files.

> Also, the wiki didn't mention anything about network-manager which is what I
> would like to use for network connections,

The procedure links to http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse where appropriate,
where wireless interface configuration using NetworkManager is described.
There is nothing specific to the orinoco driver in this regard.

Geoff


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