AirPort PC24-H and WPA2

[MrGasS27]

Hi everybody!

I want to buy an AirPort PC24-H Card for my Power Macintosh G4/800 Quicksilver with Mac OS 9.2.2 and 10.4.11, I put Wireless on it with a USB Realtek NIC card (it's chinese) and it works only under 10.4.11, it's slow and I have to use necessarily 10.4.11 to transfer files through AFP protocol from my Mac Mini.

I want to put an AirPort to use my Wireless network also on OS 9, but I have WPA2 encryption on my router, can OS 9 and 10.44.1 connect to that?

Thank you

 

[Gorgonops]

If your router is running in WPA/WPA2 "hybrid" mode where it'll allow both TKIP and AES encryption clients then you'll be able to connect to it under 10.4, while if you're set up for "strict" WPA2 AES encryption then you're out of luck. (The original Airport card's hardware only supports TKIP; the whole point of the TKIP protocol was to salvage hardware designed for WEP.) If that's a screenshot from your router configuration then you should be fine. Restricting your router to AES-only protects your network from a few obscure packet injection attacks but for residential use it's probably not a big deal. TKIP is still *far* better than WEP.

Since this is a desktop you're talking about another option you might consider is a Wifi bridge/extender like this. With something like it you'd simply hook your machine up to the Ethernet port and treat it like a wired network, which will allow OS 9 to work.

 

[MrGasS27]

If your router is running in WPA/WPA2 "hybrid" mode where it'll allow both TKIP and AES encryption clients then you'll be able to connect to it under 10.4, while if you're set up for "strict" WPA2 AES encryption then you're out of luck. (The original Airport card's hardware only supports TKIP; the whole point of the TKIP protocol was to salvage hardware designed for WEP.) If that's a screenshot from your router configuration then you should be fine. Restricting your router to AES-only protects your network from a few obscure packet injection attacks but for residential use it's probably not a big deal. TKIP is still *far* better than WEP.

Since this is a desktop you're talking about another option you might consider is a Wifi bridge/extender like this. With something like it you'd simply hook your machine up to the Ethernet port and treat it like a wired network, which will allow OS 9 to work.

Hm, I think I will choose an extender with ethernet for better compatibility with OS 9...