Bruce Johnson wrote:
b) Adequate driver support (driver supports WPA TKIP or WPA2 AES or
mixed mode)
Which it does, per the Airport software version mentioned in Apple's
KB note.
Which then depends on the correct drivers and/or Airport software
updates being applied.
c) Operating system support. (OS knows how to handle WPA)
Which it does, per the OSX version (>= 10.3) noted on the Apple KB note.
Is that a blanket 10.3, or only for "Airport ready" models? Was the
Pismo ever sold as Airport ready? Using a PCMCIA or Airport to PCMCIA
card adapter would say "no" to me. This might be an arbitrary
restriction that Apple imposed for no real reason or a technical one due
to reliability of the Cardbus interface.
d) Correct firmware for the card.(as this dictates what features will
work.)
AFAIK Apple has never updated the firmware on the original Airport
card, past the very very early ones.
I certainly did not need to update any firmware for it to work out of
the box with my G4 Gig Ethernet or my Powerbook G4.
The firmware for a lot of G cards is a binary file that is uploaded to
the card from the hosts hard disk by the driver (at least when we are
talking about generic G cards.) I assume Apple used this model too.
Therefore the firmware would have arrived with updated Airport software
and without the latest software the card's ability to connect to WPA
therefore restricted.
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