Subject: Re: Wavelan/Airport Trouble
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@mac.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/29/2001 20:31:09
>> Also, verify that 0x0123456789 is the correct key value (well, I
>> assume you made this specific key up, for illustrative purposes...);
>> if you have admin access to the base station, access it under MacOS
>> using the Airport Admin utility, and under one of the menus (Tools?
>> I'm booted under NetBSD at the moment and can't check...), you'll find
>> a command like "Show network equivalent password" or similar.  Select
>> that item, and it will tell you the key in hex.  Alternately, if you
>> have a working java implementation under NetBSD (I don't), you could
>> use the java configurator from
>> http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/
> 
> 
> Also check out pkgsrc/net/airportbasestationconfig which is a package of
> the above. Since it needs java, you'll need like an i386. :-(

Worked for me (at least for browsing).  Just include -green.  There is 
PR somewhere about this.

	Andrew