Re: ibook G3 Wireless problem

2008-01-27 Thread Tim Teulings
Hallo! I think the Airport (not Airport Extreme) can only handle WEP encryption, not WPA encryption. That's because the hardware of the Airport (not Airport Extreme) only knows 802.11b, that means only WEP and not WPA. That is not true. My G3 800 Mhz iBook can handle WPA - under Mac OS X. A

Re: ibook G3 Wireless problem

2008-01-27 Thread Jack Malmostoso
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 20:10:20 +0100, Pierre Bauduin wrote: > iBook G3 > means Airport > iBook G4 means Airport Extreme But also remember that Airport Extreme is powered (?) by Broadcom, therefore it also means trouble with linux. -- Best Regards, Jack Linux User #264449 Powered by Debian GNU/Li

Re: ibook G3 Wireless problem

2008-01-27 Thread Pierre Bauduin
Hi there, I think the Airport (not Airport Extreme) can only handle WEP encryption, not WPA encryption. That's because the hardware of the Airport (not Airport Extreme) only knows 802.11b, that means only WEP and not WPA. Also, I think you can't install Airport Extreme in a iBook G3. iBook G3 mea

ibook G3 Wireless problem

2008-01-27 Thread stuart
Hi there Guys, I'm having hassles getting my ibook's wireless airport card to connect to our home wireless network. I'm running gentoo on the ibook (this, after my debian prooved too slow on it...,anyway moving on). Its a G3 500MHZ(which runs beautifully with KDE btw). The network I'm trying to c