On Saturday 02 February 2008, Thorsten Gunkel wrote: > Hi, > I recently updated the kernel on an iBook G4 (Debian/Etch) to > 2.6.22-3. As far as I understood there should be a new network stack > available with this kernel which offers the possibiltity to use WPA > and WPA2 with the build in airport extreme. Is this right? > > I searched a bit about this but failed to find a recent HOWTO which > explains how to setup this new network stack for a WEP or a WPA / > WPA2 wireless network. > > I noticed that lsmod shows that ieee80211softmac is loaded, so I > guess I'm currently still using the old network stack? > > TIA > Thorsten
Yes, you're using the old wireless stack. The b43 driver that uses the new mac80211 driver was merged in 2.6.24 kernel, you can find it in unstable. > -- > http://www.tgunkel.de -- :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

