On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 02:08:31AM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > Hi Sven > > Thanks for your answer ... > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 11:17:25PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:02:58PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > Hi all > > > > > > I'd like to know whether the "standard" Apple Airport card, about 2 > > > years old, can handle WPA[2] key negotiation with the latest 2.6 > > > kernels: > > > > Well, from my experience at debconf 05, whose wireless network seem to need > > wpa stuff, i would say no, since nobody here has managed to make it work. > > > You might be right: From what I learned the last days: You might get > WPA working with "Hermes I" (or is this actually Orinoco Silver? .. ) > with wpasupplicant: But you need a 2.4 Kernel. > > One of the supported drivers for wpasupplicant: > "Agere Systems Inc. Linux Driver (Hermes-I/Hermes-II chipset) (WPA, but not > WPA2)" > http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/ > > wpasupplicant says in its README > [<http://hostap.epitest.fi/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/hostap/wpa_supplicant/README?rev=1.84&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup>, > excerpt]: > > ------------------------ > Current hardware/software requirements: > - Linux kernel 2.4.x or 2.6.x with Linux Wireless Extensions v15 or newer > > [ .... ] > > Agere Systems Inc. Linux Driver > (http://www.agere.com/support/drivers/) > Please note that the driver interface file (driver_hermes.c) and > hardware specific include files are not included in the > wpa_supplicant distribution. You will need to copy these from the > source package of the Agere driver. > ------------------------- > > > Agere's latest driver from > <http://www.agere.com/mobility/wireless_lan_drivers.html> > (<http://www.agere.com/mobility/docs/wl_lkm_722_abg.tar.gz>) in turn > supports only hermes II/II.5 (on 2.4), the, as it seems, older one > (also 2.4 only, AFAIKS) both Hermes I and Hermes II: > <http://www.agere.com/mobility/docs/wl_lkm_718_release.tar.gz> > > So unless I missed some important facts (definitely possible, as > documentation for Linux/Orinoco in general, for what I found, seems to > be a catastrophe) I need another radio card, as I'm not prepared to > return back to 2.4 only to get a secure WLAN running .. > > My main problem still is that I do not know exactly what I have on > this card, as the Apple naming convention actually is unusable: > Apple Airport, and Airport Extreme, whatever this may be ...
The airport extreme is ome broadcom chip, while the normal one is an orinoco/hermes one i think, not sure. It seems a safe bet is the pcmcia ralink based cards, since they provide GPLed drivers and are rather friendly. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
