There's a snag with MintPPC that may be common to many or all PPC Linux distros - the wireless network utility can not negotiate WEP security via Airport.
Obviously, a Powerbook is not much use without wireless network access. I don't want to have to use a WiFi dongle if I can avoid it. I have to attach various vintage devices that can only use WEP to my local WLAN, so I have to use WEP security.
The blockage seems to be with the way Airport interprets a "hex" password - you can't enter anything but ASCII into the password forms. Most systems will parse the ASCII representation of a hex password correctly, but airport seems to read the entered characters at their ASCII binary values. In Tiger, for example, you have to tell the utility whether the password is ASCII or HEX. Debian-based utilities don't give that choice.
Any known work-around to this? I searched quite a few forums without any success.
Rick