WPA on Ibook G3 running ubuntu?

josh josh at vnetworx.net
Sun Mar 27 20:52:37 EST 2005


Jouni,
Thanks for the reply, 

Yeah it is the Hermes-II Driver i do believe, If i get it working i will 
post a page on doing it.
Thanks,
 -josh 

Jouni Malinen writes: 

> On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:14:42PM -0500, josh wrote: 
> 
>> First off thanks for the reply,
>> It's basically the only wifi card that will work in a G3 Ibook, Macintosh's 
>> are proprietary hardware. It isnt a PCMCIA Card either, it is installed 
>> under the keyboard /w a built in antenna.  
>> 
>> I believe the driver is 'Airport' 
> 
> I still don't know what card this is or what driver it is using. I'm not
> aware of any driver called 'Airport'. If it Hermes II -based card like
> some of the threads seem to indicate, you would need to use another
> driver interface in wpa_supplicant. This interface code is not under
> compatible license, so it is not included in the wpa_supplicant releases
> nor do I do any testing on it, so you would need to ask someone else for
> help with that. This is of course assuming, that you are indeed using
> the Agere driver. 
> 
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