commodorejohn
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I recently got my Pismo up and running again; the issue turned out to be a fried CPU card, and I got a replacement on the cheap. Unfortunately, the new card is a 400MHz G3, as opposed to the 500MHz I had in there before. That's a bit of a problem as I found 10.4 to be only just tolerable on the 500MHz card, and I don't expect it's going to be particularly nice at 80% speed. At the moment, I've just put OS9 on it, which is really all I need (the machine is only intended as a secondary writing laptop.) The downside is that OS9 never got support for WPA/WPA2 wireless encryption...I could, I suppose, set up a secondary MAC-filtered WEP network just for this thing, but it's just so annoying that there was never an update for this...
Which brings me to my question: given that classic Mac OS has a long and rich tradition of third-party developers filling in gaps until Apple got around to them (if they ever did,) is it possible to hack up an extension to add support for this? Can an extension hook itself into another extension, or would you have to replace the AirPort extensions altogether? Is there enough information out there on the networking API to do either?
Which brings me to my question: given that classic Mac OS has a long and rich tradition of third-party developers filling in gaps until Apple got around to them (if they ever did,) is it possible to hack up an extension to add support for this? Can an extension hook itself into another extension, or would you have to replace the AirPort extensions altogether? Is there enough information out there on the networking API to do either?