{"id":92,"date":"2006-12-20T01:38:43","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T09:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/20\/linksys-wrt54g-v11-wpa-and-airport-extreme-incompatibility\/"},"modified":"2006-12-20T01:38:43","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T09:38:43","slug":"linksys-wrt54g-v11-wpa-and-airport-extreme-incompatibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2006\/12\/20\/linksys-wrt54g-v11-wpa-and-airport-extreme-incompatibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Linksys WRT54G V1.1, WPA, and Airport Extreme Incompatibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were times when I was not able to connect my PowerBook G4 and MacBook Pro to certain WPA-enabled Wireless Access Point. I would guess that there&#8217;s some kind incompatibility of the WPA implementation between the Access Point and Airport Extreme driver.<\/p>\n<p>The equipments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Linksys WRT54G V1.1 with firmware version 4.30.5, WPA-TKIP enabled<\/li>\n<li>15&#8243; PowerBook G4 1.67GHz, Radeon Mobility 9700, 1440&#215;960, Mac OS X 10.4.8 with all the latest updates (12.19.2006)<\/li>\n<li>15&#8243; MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.0GHz, Radeon X1600, Mac OS X 10.4.8 with all the latest updates (12.19.2006)<\/li>\n<li>15&#8243; MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.0GHz, Radeon X1600, Boot Camp 1.1.2 beta, Windows XP with SP2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both the PowerBook G4 and the MacBook Pro (Mac OS X 10.4.8) were unable to connect to the Wireless Access Point when WPA is enabled. Both Macs could connect Wireless Access Point without any problems when the wireless encryption was turned off.<\/p>\n<p>I booted up Windows XP on the MacBook Pro, and had no problems connecting to Wireless Access Point with or without the wireless encryption.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have the problem when connecting to Linksys WRT54G V3 or higher.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Related:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/19\/macbook-pro-and-dlink-dwl-514-incompatibility\/\">MacBook Pro and DLink DWL-514 Incompatibility<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/feature\/-\/1000026121&amp;tag=37prime-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo @ Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006HU4OO\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">MA609LL\/A 15&#8243; MacBook Pro 2.16 GHz Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, Radeon X1600 128MB, 120 GB HD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006HU56G\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">MA610LL\/A 15&#8243; MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, Radeon X1600 256MB, 120 GB HD<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B0006HU56Q\/?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">MA611LL\/A 17&#8243; MacBook Pro 2.33 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM, Radeon X1600 256MB, 160 GB HD<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2Ftg%2Ffeature%2F-%2F1000026121&amp;tag=37prime-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325\" target=\"_blank\">Macbook Core 2 Duo @ Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000GA90V4\/37prime-20?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook 1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 512MB RAM, 60GB Hard Drive, Combo Optical Drive, White<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000GABVOS\/37prime-20?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 80GB Hard Drive, Double-Layer SuperDrive, White<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000GA91P4\/37prime-20?tag=37prime-20\" target=\"_blank\">MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 1GB RAM, 120 Hard Drive, Double-Layer SuperDrive, Black<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There were times when I was not able to connect my PowerBook G4 and MacBook Pro to certain WPA-enabled Wireless Access Point. I would guess that there&#8217;s some kind incompatibility of the WPA implementation between the Access Point and Airport Extreme driver. The equipments: Linksys WRT54G V1.1 with firmware version 4.30.5, WPA-TKIP enabled 15&#8243; PowerBook &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2006\/12\/20\/linksys-wrt54g-v11-wpa-and-airport-extreme-incompatibility\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Linksys WRT54G V1.1, WPA, and Airport Extreme Incompatibility&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946],"tags":[1931,2648,936,3131,3216],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-mac-os-x","tag-security","tag-tech","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-1u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}