MorphOS and wireless?

[maffoo]

Hi

I've got a Mac Mini G4 with Airport, and I've installed MorphOS 2.7. It isn't convenient to have it connected directly to my router so I've been trying to get it working with wireless. I've tried a couple of old wireless routers but I can't get them to act as bridges without downgrading the security to WEP, so I've given up on that idea

I found a post on here from December that said that Airport support isn't working yet so I'm assuming that's a no-go for the time being. Does anyone know of any compatible USB adapters that I could use? I have a couple of cheap USB adapters around, but I can't get them to work with MorphOS.  Failing that, any suggestions for a cheap wireless bridge that works with WPA/WPA2?

Thanks in advance.

Matthew

[maffoo]

MorphOS has no wireless support at all.

That's a pain Looks like I'll have to find some sort of wireless bridge after all.

[maffoo]

You can have a normal ap acting as ap client and getting the internet connection from a wifi router. I had it this way and performed quite well. As for the security issues, you can use whatever security encryption you want, it's only for the ap-router connection, the mini would get the connection via ethernet.

You don't have to set a bridge, only need your router set up normally and wifi active, then, with the ap(that it would be to the mac mini) configure it as ap client, and from there, connect an ethernet cable to the mini. Essentially the ap is acting as a wifi card, the difference is that instead of using a usb port, or the internal airport, you are using your ethernet port.
I had this until my ap died from some strange reason. Now i'm using a pc with debian acting as router, but soon will get another ap to get it directly the connection as it had originally.
Cheers!

That's how I thought it would work, so I tried a couple of routers which can be set up as access points. However, while they will happily connect to my ADSL modem/router if I disable wireless security or set it to WEP they won't connect if I try to use WPA (the best my router supports.) I'm a bit wary of using WEP as I gather that it isn't that secure, and while I don't think me neighbours will try to use my connection I would rather not take the chance

[maffoo]

@maffoo

The ap i used was a normal one, and it can connect via wep/wpa etc.... It's strange that your ap won't connect to a router via wpa. Is that ap very old?. I used a plain dlink and it allowed connections on the various ciphers wifi actually has.

The ones I've tried are quite old, the first I tried is Dynamode and when that didn't work I got a cheap Belkin off Ebay. I actually got the Belkin because I wanted to try using the dd-wrt firmware, and the model number (F5D7231C) is on the list of compatible routers, but when it arrived it turned out to be about the only revision that isn't supported I should also mention that my modem/router is also quite old, I had a newer one at one point that was provided by my ISP but it died so I went back to the reliable old one

Would something like this work?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Vonets-VAP11G-Wifi-Bridge-Dreambox-PS3-XBox-Wireless-/330537262203?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item4cf58e5c7b

It's reasonably cheap and says it supports AP Client mode, which sounds like what I need!

Thanks for all the help.

Matthew