Re: Looking for HOWTO use airport extreme with recent kernels
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.
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