Re: Is it possible to use a 2002 (Titanium) 15" PowerBook G4's wifi with WPA2, PSK, AES, etc.?
FYI. I never resolved this issue. It looks like I will have to buy an
wifi USB dongle if I want wireless.
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 09:06:19AM -0700, PhiLLip Pi wrote:
> I had to give up on its wifi since firmware-linux-nonfree package was
> crashing my PB G4. I will stick for old fashion network cable for now.
> :(
>
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:27:04PM +0000, kaleb white wrote:
> > I think so.
> >
> > Sent from my personal Outlook.
> >
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> >
> > From: PhiLLip Pi <ant@zimage.com>
> > Sent: March 7, 2017 12:46 PM
> > To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: 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 11:01:10AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 02:32:55AM -0800, PhiLLip Pi wrote:
> > > > I know Mac OS Xes can't, but I wonder if this is the same issue with
> > > > Debian/Linux.
> > >
> > > Do you know which wifi chip it has?
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell from some searching, it is probably a
> > > broadcom 43xx chip. If it is, then there is some hope, since I
> > > see someone at least got wpa2+psk with aes working apparantly:
> > >
> > [1]http://ramblingfoo.blogspot.ca/2008/02/wpa2-psk-with-aes-on-broadcom-wlan0.html
> >
> > [2]wpa2-psk with aes on a broadcom wlan0 (2.6.24)
> > ramblingfoo.blogspot.ca
> > Update: I managed to find out why the wpa_action stuff was needed. Please
> > ignore the lines written like this ; they are there just for refer...
> >
> > Here is what I know based on my new Debian PPC v8's installation:
> > dmesg (full log in [3]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)?
> > :(
> >
> > >From uname -a command: ... 3.16.0-4-powerpc #1 Debian 3.16.39-1+deb8u1
> > (2017-02-22) ppc GNU/Linux
> >
> > However, my LXDE and Xfce (have both installed) seem to crash while I
> > use them. Mouse cursor moves, but don't respond to my clicks. Keyboard
> > is frozen too.
> >
> > I might need to uninstall firmware-linux-nonfree package since it was
> > fine before it. :(
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