On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:58:05PM +0100, Douglas Russell wrote: > On Tuesday 23 Aug 2005 14:45, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: > > > I had to unscrew a Powerbook G4 to install the card > > Unscrew it?
Yes. > What kind of card was that? The Apple "Airport" card, about 2 or 3 years old now, that I bought separately from the Titanium. I.e. this radio card wasn't part of the Titanium IV when I bought the latter. Apple even gives usable instructions in the Handbook coming with the computer on how to install the card. IINM (I'm not sure on it as there were no specs delivered with the Airport card) the card is an 802.11b one, but could perhaps be upgraded via an OSX firmware upgrade to 802.11g. Please see this Apple document: <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107795> Recent kernels see the card, when I start it, as an orinoco incident. > You found something you could mount > internally? Not being sure about what you mean with "mount", but if you mean "getting it running" with the neccessary drivers here: Yes, the card works, with WEP "encryption" (please see my previous message for the reason of the quotes ... :) and with a "Bit Rate:11 Mb/s", according to iwconfig. As a sidenote: the kernel (2..6.12) says the card is "WEP supported, 104-bit key", but the passphrase on the Access Point is set to "126 bits 26 hex digits" ... And I have a working connection currently to this AP. So it seems to me the security situation for the card, tho still ugly, is slightly better than even the kernel thinks it is ... :) Here's the /etc/network/interfaces file that loads the orinoco card here (with the sensitive parts and stuff that's commented, removed): --------------------------------- # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # wireless orinoco: auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up modprobe airport # START/STOP WEP DRIVERS: pre-up modprobe arc4 pre-up modprobe crc32c post-down rmmod arc4 post-down rmmod crc32c post-down rmmod libcrc32c # END WEP DRIVERS post-down rmmod airport post-down rmmod orinoco post-down rmmod hermes wireless-mode managed wireless_key restricted wireless_key1 [deleted] wireless_key2 [deleted] wireless_key3 [deleted] wireless_key4 [deleted] wireless_defaultkey [deleted] wireless-essid [deleted] hwaddress ether [deleted] gateway 192.168.1.1 network 192.168.1.0 --------------------------------------- Security hint (or at least that's what I hope it is ... :), for those who don't know yet: "hwaddress ether" above means you can set a MAC address for cards that allow this setting. This makes restrictions possible for access wishes to your AP via MAC address filtering that's organised on your AP .. nice feature that some access points, or at least the one I use (WRT54G, linksys.com) have .. Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
