Re: Looking for HOWTO use airport extreme with recent kernels
Amit Uttamchandani <amit.uttam@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 23:29:09 +0100
> Thorsten Gunkel <tgunkel-lists@tgunkel.de> wrote:
>> 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?
> Just curious to know how you upgraded your kernel to 2.6.22-3. I have a
>> PowerBook G4 running etch that I would like to upgrade as well.
I already had http://backports.org in my sources.list so that wasn't too
difficult ;-)
> As for your problem, I think you might have to upgrade to kernel
> 2.6.24. Here is a part taken from kernelnewbies.org:
Yes, you were right. I got a 2.6.24 kernel image from unstable (no problems
with the depenencies) and it seems I'm running the new stack. When I find the
time I will try WPA with it.
regards
Thorsten
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