[ANN] New kernels, gmac, airport, usb...

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

>
>actually, if i understand the problem, the 'standard' driver wants to know
>the 56-bit key in hex and apple generates this key using the text string
>you supply (after passing it through using some hashing routine)
>
>if you have an airport basestation (with 1.1 s/w or later) you can
>see the hex string that is being used by choosing 'Network Equivalent
>Password...' under the 'Base Station' menu in the airport admin utility.

I got it to work. There was an endian problem in the driver preventing
using of the WEP mode. It's fixed in version 0.9.2. I also added a module
param for the key so you don't need iwconfig to set it

see ppclinux.apple.com/~benh for updates

Ben.

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