I posted a [while ago] about the Airport Extreme driver for Linux being finished but not being capable of WEP (wireless encryption gubbins). Well since then I’ve wiped [Gentoo] off the old iBook and gone totally user friendly with [Ubuntu].

On installing the current stable version (Breezy Badger) I was dissapointed to see that the driver wasn’t yet supported (due to an older kernel). So I went crazy and downloaded the most recent tesing version [Dapper Drake (flight 6)].

Well what can I say, half way through the install I was asked which of my two network cards I wanted to use to check for updates. So now here I am sitting in the living room writing my blog from my 128bit WEP wireless connection under Ubuntu.

Seriously, if you have a few gig free on your drive you should check it out.

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