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Re: airport with wpa



Hi Bob,

On Sun, Sep 06, 2009 at 03:16:58PM -0600, Bob Lounsbury wrote:
> I've been searching for awhile and it seems that the original airport card
> does not have a linux driver that supports wpa. Just wanted to confirm that
> this is true. If so, I guess I'll have to switch my wireless network to WEP.

The original Apple AirPort Card (Hermes/Agere based) is supported by the
orinoco driver in mainline kernels.

This driver received WPA support (currently WPA1+TKIP only) in kernel
2.6.28-rc1.  Firmware is required to be provided, see
http://wiki.debian.org/orinoco for further details.

Geoff


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