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Re: Is it possible to use a 2002 (Titanium) 15" PowerBook G4's wifi with WPA2, PSK, AES, etc.?



On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:43:37PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 10:46:16AM -0800, PhiLLip Pi wrote:
> > Here is what I know based on my new Debian PPC v8's installation:
> > dmesg (full log in http://pastebin.ca/3777025 ):
> > $ dmesg |grep airport
> > [   11.706958] airport 0.15 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>)
> > [   11.707033] airport: Physical address 80030000
> > [   12.913489] airport 0.00030000:radio: Hardware identity 0005:0001:0001:0002
> > [   12.921204] airport 0.00030000:radio: Station identity  001f:0001:0008:0046
> > [   12.928672] airport 0.00030000:radio: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.70
> > [   13.135033] airport 0.00030000:radio: firmware: failed to load agere_sta_fw.bin (-2)
> > [   13.143969] airport 0.00030000:radio: firmware: failed to load agere_sta_fw.bin (-2)
> > [   13.151299] airport 0.00030000:radio: Hardware identity 0005:0001:0001:0002
> > [   13.158542] airport 0.00030000:radio: Station identity  001f:0001:0008:0046
> > [   13.165525] airport 0.00030000:radio: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 8.70
> > [   13.172456] airport 0.00030000:radio: Ad-hoc demo mode supported
> > [   13.179321] airport 0.00030000:radio: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported
> > [   13.186201] airport 0.00030000:radio: WEP supported, 104-bit key
> > As you can see, it only goes up to WEP. No WPA2. I noticed it said 
> > missing agere_sta_fw.bin firmware from 
> > added "http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian jessie main non-free" in my 
> > /etc/apt/sources.list file. So, I rebooted and rechecked. Now, it 
> > doesn't say it and shows WPA supported, but not WPA2 (better security)? 
> > :(
> 
> The orinoco does not do WPA2 from what I can find.  WPA is the best it
> can do.
> 
> Apparently 15" titanium powerbook 2002 is much too vague to determine
> the machine in question.  That covers about 5 or 6 different models
> it seems.  Some with orinoco, some with b43, and perhaps even some with
> something else.
> 
> Seems the b43xx based models are b/g and WPA2 capable, while the orinoco
> based ones are b only with WPA at best.

Ah. I guess I shouldn't bother trying its internal wireless unless I 
want to sacrifice wireless security. :(
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