Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-11 Thread gm c
The question of the encription key has been brought up. I have connected to the ap (base station) with the card using os9. The card and ap should work with linux. As I understand, when the module(s) for the airport card are installed I can iwconfig in a terminal and see the essid and key etc. for

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-10 Thread Kiko Piris
On 10/09/2005 at 22:58 +0200, Matthias Grimm wrote: > The only question left is: Is 104Bit key = WEP128? This is correct. A wep128 key is 104 bits long (13 hex digits). And wep64 uses a 40 bits long key. And nowadays the security provided by wep128 and wep64 is *practically* the same: (almost) n

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-10 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 11:52:15 -0700 (PDT) gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "iwlist eth1 scan" should report ap's but gives error message > that it is not permmited. Is it broken in PPC wireless-tools??? It > works in x86 wireless-tools. > anybody know how to make this work? > mike I have

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-10 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:47:02 + Chris Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we talk about the airport card from year 2000 mounted in an > > Powerbook G3, I'm pretty sure about this. Maybe Apple changed this with > > later Powerbooks. > > > > Looks like we're both right. I asked one of our t

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-10 Thread gm c
I tried the live cd with the same results as my installed sys. I do not get connected and when I use iwconfig the ap is not recognized. My boot message /var/log/dmesg eth1: station 001f:0001:0008:0026 : lucent/agere firmware v8.4 : ad-hock supported 104bit key :mac 00:10:c6:66:75:8b

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-08 Thread gm c
> > > > > On Sep 7, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > > > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable > encrypted > > > communication in the acces point, because the original Apple > Airport > > > card only supports 40Bit WEP which is not longer supported by > rece

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-08 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005 15:27:07 -0400 "Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 7, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Matthias Grimm wrote: > > > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted > > communication in the acces point, because the original Apple Airport > > c

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-08 Thread Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D.
On Sep 7, 2005, at 5:47 AM, Matthias Grimm wrote: If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted communication in the acces point, because the original Apple Airport card only supports 40Bit WEP which is not longer supported by recent access points. They use 128bit WEP or

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/7/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:08:06 + > Chris Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 9/7/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted > > > communication in the

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-07 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:08:06 + Chris Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/7/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted > > communication in the acces point, because the original Apple Airport > > card only suppo

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-07 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/7/05, Matthias Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you don't use the Apple base station you have to disable encrypted > communication in the acces point, because the original Apple Airport > card only supports 40Bit WEP which is not longer supported by recent > access points. They use 128bi

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-07 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:07:33 -0700 (PDT) gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unable to get my airport card to connect to a wireless base > station. I am using /etc/network/interfaces. > iface eth1 inet dhcp > wireless-essid myessid > wireless-mode managed > wireless-key mykey > wireless-ap

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-06 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/5/05, gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the ap is the base station in a cell and a gateway in a network ( a > transciver). > you are using eth0 because you are loading airport before sungem. if > sungem at all. > If you are doing a ifup eth0 you are not doing a auto but a manual > up. To clar

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-05 Thread gm c
> On my system (Pismo g3 iBook 600) my airport card is eth0, eth1 is > my > ethernet port. > I never used iwconfig, simply set the options I posted previously, > directly > in /etc/network/interfaces, then ran > ifdown eth0 > ifup eth0 > > Isn't wireless-ap for an access point? If you're only

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-05 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/5/05, Elimar Riesebieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 the mental interface ofgm c told:>>> -> > > >> > > > when I iwconfig eth1 the ap is all 4's or all 0's. If I> > iwconfig> > > > essid, mode, key, and ap the ap is not get recognized. > > > > what am I missing???> I am not

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-05 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 the mental interface of gm c told: > > > - > > > > > > > > when I iwconfig eth1 the ap is all 4's or all 0's. If I > > iwconfig > > > > essid, mode, key, and ap the ap is not get recognized. > > > > what am I missing??? > I am not using extreme card, but orig. I am loading ai

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-04 Thread gm c
- > > > > > > when I iwconfig eth1 the ap is all 4's or all 0's. If I > iwconfig > > > essid, mode, key, and ap the ap is not get recognized. > > > what am I missing??? I am not using extreme card, but orig. I am loading airport module. modprobe airport --which also loads orinoco and yenta-socket

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-04 Thread Chris Martin
On 9/4/05, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: from mine (working)# The first network card - this entry was created during the Debianinstallation#auto eth0iface eth0 inet dhcp   wireless-key bbaadd#wireless-key off#  wireless-essid BONG_LANS_11B the '#'s are clearly comments. i bounce betw

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
from mine (working) # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation #auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp wireless-key bbaadd #wireless-key off # wireless-essid BONG_LANS_11B the '#'s are clearly comments. i bounce between AP's so i just do them on the comman

Re: help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-04 Thread Matthias Grimm
On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 13:07:33 -0700 (PDT) gm c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am unable to get my airport card to connect to a wireless base > station. I am using /etc/network/interfaces. > iface eth1 inet dhcp > wireless-essid myessid > wireless-mode managed > wireless-key mykey > wireless-ap

help with airport card on g3 powerbook

2005-09-04 Thread gm c
I am unable to get my airport card to connect to a wireless base station. I am using /etc/network/interfaces. iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless-essid myessid wireless-mode managed wireless-key mykey wireless-ap myap when I iwconfig eth1 the ap is all 4's or all 0's. If I iwconfig essid, mode, k