EMail from Steven Hanley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to DebianPPC <debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org> with message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Tue, 21 Aug 2001 00:33:50 +1000 Steven Hanley wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 04:14:50PM +0200, Michael Flaig wrote: > > Hi ! > > > > Has anybody Airport ? > > card or access point? both ... or is there a better access point and card ? > > I have the card, works fine at home in ibss mode with a d-link card in an x86 what do you mean with ibss ? > box, at work we have an aironet access point and an apple airport base > station, both of which also work fine with the airport card in my laptop. cool :-) > > > I want to buy Airport but don_t know if the support is good. Does Linux > > support all airport features ? > > Do I need MacOS for Airport, because I_m about to kick it soon (need more > > space for GNU/Linux :-)) ) > > Are there special tools for airport ? > > no need for macos, the card is fully supported in linux (well you may need > macos to update the firmware on the card, I have not worked that one out in > linux yet) as for airport base station support, there is a neat java client > for that iin which you can do any airtport base station configuration, > including updating the base station firmware. so no need for macos to interact > with the base stations either :) so I should first update the firmware and then delete macos ... :-) > > > > My hardware is Pismo 400Mhz ... Debian GNU/Linux sid > > > > Is there any known problem with airport and GNU/Linux ? > > from time to time the driver may have issues, but generally they get fixed > fast and it works again. so no problems > > > > And my last question, because I heard and read that i need pcmcia, which > > modules do i need to get the pcmcia slot to work ( evtl for gsm card !? > > don_t know, yet) ? > > you dont need pcmcia installed or anything, the airport card is not a pcmcia > card and is initialised seperately to pcmcia services. just modprobe airport > should work. > > > Have 2.4.8-pre3-benh ... newer benh doesn_t compile without smp ... don_t > > know why ... > > well someone else on this list has had a problem with the most recent benh > kernel and airport, I have 2.4.6 benh working perfectly with it. > > > Is Airport a security problem ? how good is encryption and can i configure a > password ? > > WEP is a joke, do not use WEP for encryption, either just use no encryption at > all or set up proper point to point encrypted tunnels (VPN), I use CIPE for > this purpose which is incredibly easy to set up on linux and works pretty much > flawlessly. Well ... no encryption is bad :-( Everyone with a laptop in front of my door could sniff my network, or isn´t it so easy ? so you build vpn between you and ?! access point or gateway route !? how does this work ... i thought vpn is point to point so you have to build a tunnel to the other point you want to connect !? or is it possible to tunnel only the short path from card to access point or router ? thanks, michael > > See You > Steve > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wibble.net/~sjh > Look Up In The Sky > Is it a bird? No > Is it a plane No > Is it a small blue banana? > Yes > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
