Re: don't bring your APs to HEL
It is my humble opinion that the wireless should be designed so that
there is not some bar that people must overcome financially in order
to use it. It should be available to the lowest common denominator. My
laptop and wireless card are not going to do WPA, and I cannot afford
to purchase improvements, especially for arbitrary and pointless
restrictions (perceived otherwise or not).
It sounds like many people are not able to do WPA, and there is some
attempts to re-negotiate this issue, so we should wait. I am fine with
patiently doing so, but I hope it is understood that based on the
number of responses to this issue that this requirement is going to
cause significant problems for many people.
There are many other ways that they can restrict access in more
compatable formats.
micah
Martin Pitt schrieb am Wednesday, den 29. June 2005:
> Hi!
>
> Moray Allan [2005-06-29 13:27 +0100]:
> > On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 13:55 +0200, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> > > Or buy a g card. I have a Atheros card and that works just fine. or
> > > ask for people to bring you a g card.
> >
> > No, I'd need to buy a new laptop for that, my iBook doesn't have a
> > socket where such a card would go.
>
> Same for me. The only way to get wireless on an iBook is a prism2
> based USB adapter like the Netgear MA-111 with the linux-wlan-ng
> drivers. They work very nicely in unencrypted mode and also play well
> with WEP, but I guess setting up WPA on these things is either painful
> or impossible.
>
> Does anybody have experience with WPA and linux-wlan-ng?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
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