Re: Orinoco/hermes (original Airport) WPA support status
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 11:50:56PM +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 09:16:10PM +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:15:23 +0000, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > What's the status of WPA support in the orinoco driver ? Back in July,
> > > it wasn't supported, IIRC. Has anything happened since then ? Any
> > > plans ?
> >
> > I would also like to know the answer ... All I realize is that since
> > 2.6.13 the orinoco driver no longer works with waproamd (it was when used
> > with some cvs snapshot of may this year).
>
> No WPA with Orinoco - only WEP - IINM. Please check the archives for more:
At least that's probably true for the the old Orinoco card: This card
is about 2 or 3 years old, and I had to open up the Titanium IV to
install it ...
> <http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.ports.powerpc?hl=en>
>
> Also a look to your kern.log output when loading airport/orinoco
> etc. drivers might suggest what's going on:
>
> Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.70
> Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> WEP supported, 104-bit key
[ ... ]
Sorry for being a bit late with that ...
Best Regards
Wolfgang
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