Re: airport with wpa

[Bob Lounsbury <boblounsbury@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Geoff Simmons <gsimmons@gsimmons.org> wrote:

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

Looks like I'll probably just continue to use WEP until Lenny or the
next stable release uses the proper kernel. Otherwise, I'll have to pin
the kernel down. Also, the wiki didn't mention anything about
network-manager which is what I would like to use for network
connections, I could use /network/interfaces but my wife uses the
laptop as well. So, I rely on network-manager. Thanks for the
instructions.

Bob