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. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > From: PhiLLip Pi <a...@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 > <b...@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. :(
