Wireless Card updates?

Dunno if im in the right forum but I took my g4 powerbook from 2001 out of closet due to a friend interested in it so now im trying to update it. First of all its outdated running 10.2 OSX but I tried to connect to my wireless on it and it wont connect to WPA ( just plain password) it allowed a password screen to pop up but it said could not connected to airport (belkin router) tried taking pass protection off and it worked. Does anyone know of a update to support WPA passwords for a wirless card? (ps. our other mac laptop running tiger can use the WPA)

I think getting all updates will enable this feature, but I'm not sure if it's working in 10.3 the same way.
10.3 maybe a bit tricky about that, at least in one document from my university about using Macs in the WLAN it's suggested to NOT update the Airport-Service-Program to latest 10.3.9 because that would break the WPA/802.1x.
There is mentioned that with 10.4 there are no (known) problems at all but in 10.3.9 the situatuation is as this:
Firmware 3.1.2b3 (3.30.15.p3) working;
Firmware 3.4.3f1 (3.50.37.p4) od. 3.4.f5 not working;
It's named there only for Airport Extreme there but with „old“ Airport it may be similar.
I also believe that some parts of the WPA-encryption are done in the driver itself. I'm running Gentoo as second system on my Titanium 1Ghz and there's no way to get WPA working with the built in Airport card.
If WPA is needed my suggestion would be to upgrade the System to 10.4, also shouldn't be slower than 10.3.
Best regards,
Friedrich
Mac OS X (10.4.8)
Mac OS X (10.4.8)

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I am about to use wireless internet for the first time and I don't really know what I'm doing.
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file path: C:\WINDOWS\system32\ntoskrnl.exe
product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
company: Microsoft Corporation
description: NT Kernel & System
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Moderator Note; subject edited; system type added

"If I restart, the laptop hangs for 3-5 minutes and then a BSOD comes up and suggests that I look online for DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE."
I had the exact same problem on a Thinkpad Helix after upgrading to Windows 8.1, although I do not know if it was in anyway related to the wireless hardware as you described. However, I noted that in the Device Manager many wireless hardware components had been highlighted with an exclamation mark since the problem had occured (e.g. Bluetooth, Geolocation, Broadband). Here is how I fixed it:
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Manual
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Hi all,
I am desperately needing helps from the experts here now. I have the latest santa rosa Macbook Pro. It has been crashing on me lately due to the wireless card firmware. I have run all the latest updates from software update including the AirPort.Atheros firmware update. I have tried to reformat the hard drive and installed a fresh and clean Mac OSX. The crash still persists before AND after the AirPort.Atheros firmware update. I mean I was not having this issue when I first bought the computer while others were whining all over the internet about this problem. When the fix came out, everyone
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A way to know that the crash is gonna happen is that the internet stops working and as long as I click on the wifi icon on the menu bar, The crash occurs. Could someone please help to put me out of misery please . Thank you so much for reading this and any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
Thank you
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So Im a returning user, feel like a total newb again.
I recently purchased an "Asus k53sv-xr1"
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Following the "Wireless Setup Instructions" I did the following (filling the xs' with their respective version numbers)
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Important: Installing these firmware packages is not required since the 2.6.34 kernel update, when the firmware files were moved to the linux-firmware package.
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After downloading, you must extract and copy the *.ucode file to the firmware directory, commonly /lib/firmware
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03:00:0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Decive 08ae
04:00:0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/816B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev06)
lsusb
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 058f:a014 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
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Last edited by Stromblad (2011-08-16 02:13:50)

If anything I have (re)learned some things about whats going on, which...ultimately led to more questions.
First these two snippets led me to some interesting ideas.
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These kernels have the iwlwifi driver included and the released drivers (available from this site under download page) do not work with these kernels. If you want to run the latest (or very close to it) development code with your kernel then you should use the compat-wireless project that retrieves the latest driver development code from the upstream repository. We do push our changes to this repository very frequently."
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I reinstalled, this time including the all the "iwl" packages from the "dev" section of the packages.
The result was the same.
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until i input the command
modprobe iwlagn
then dmesg | grep -i iw would report
iwlagn: Intel(r) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for linux, 2.6.33-ARCH-ks
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
I really wanted to figure this out the arch way, but I can find little to no threads on my specific card.."Intel Centrino N-100 Wireless"
If anyone can help, it would be greatly appreciated. In the meantime, I will boot the ubuntu live cd and hope that wireless is automatically configured, that way I can at the very least, attempt to figure out what model card it reports and try again with that information.
My question, other than "can anyone provide some insight as to why the system can detect the card, but not be able to bring wlan0 up", is can modprobe insert modules that do not correspond with what is actually in the machine?
Thank you

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I have a Mac Pro Dual-Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz at work that we are trying to get online wirelessly. A couple of months ago, we bought a Hawking Hi-Gain Wireless-N USB Adaptor, which was working fine until a recent update was performed. Since then, the computer crashes almost immediately if the wireless adaptor is plugged in, but runs fine when it is taken out. I am curious if anyone else has run into a similar problem when using a wireless adaptor. I also wanted to know if anyone had a recommendation for a different, reliable wireless card for an older Mac Pro.
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I have almost the exact same situation.
Same system, a d-link wua 1340 usb wireless adaptor.
Worked fine for several weeks or so until i updated to snow leopard.
Now frequent system crashes, grey screen and the box that tells me to use the power button to shut down.
I tried going back to 10.5 and still the same problem.

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Seems about rite but my system works foro some time and then at some random point freezes... guess it could be the same issue tho.
So its out of arch dev hands and needs a kernel update? Am i right to assume that next time kernel updates its the right time to try 20 series again?
Yeah im drunk, tried to check for typing tho ^^

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