Bug 113631 - Apple "airport" WLAN card module does not support hooks needed by wpa_supplicant
Summary: Apple "airport" WLAN card module does not support hooks needed by wpa_supplicant
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
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Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: PowerPC All
: P5 - None : Enhancement
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Assignee: Joachim Gleissner
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Reported: 2005-08-28 11:55 UTC by Joerg Reuter
Modified: 2006-09-28 13:26 UTC (History)
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Description Joerg Reuter 2005-08-28 11:55:30 UTC 
The "airport" module (or is it the "orinoco" module?) for the Airport WLAN card
integrated with the TiBook does have any of the hooks expected by wpa_supplicant
to retrofit WPA-PSK functionality. Since MacOS from 10.3 on does provide this
functionality it would be a very nice feature to get it running on Linux as well...
Comment 1 Olaf Hering 2005-08-28 16:09:43 UTC 
what hooks? We dont do wlan.
Comment 2 Joachim Gleissner 2005-08-29 07:06:46 UTC 
It's not just adding a few "hooks", one had to implement CCMP and TKIP in the   
driver to add WPA support. The drivers simply do not support WPA, and as they  
driver quite old hardware it's doubtful whether the developers will implement 
this at all.
Comment 3 Joerg Reuter 2005-08-29 09:17:34 UTC 
"Quite old"? It was bought new only two years ago!