Re: Wireless LAN WPA
hello...
Am Donnerstag, 20. Oktober 2005 09:48 schrieb tlwood@iinet.net.au:
> Hi,
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> I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro TE2100 with a min-pci wireless LAN card
> which is
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> treated as a PCMCIA card. Dmesg reports the firmware as a Lucent/Agere
> 8.10.
Are you sure? Mini-PCI is PCI not PCMCIA. What does lspci -v say? (No, don't
paste the whole output ;-) )
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> I'm running unstable with a 2.6.12 kernel, loading the card with modules:
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> hermes, orinoco, orinoco_cs. It works fine with 128bit WEP.
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>
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> It's not really too secure with WEP and I was hoping to use wpa_supplicant
> with
You usually use iwconfig for WEP with PSK.
> the hostap driver, to get WPA. I compiled the hostap driver with m-a and
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> installed wap_supplicant, but cannot get it to work.
So, what exactly went wrong?
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> Am I wrong in thinking wpa_supplicant with the hostap driver should be able
> to
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> give software WPA with a PrismII card?
If you are up to WPA (not WEP) you either need a rather new prismII card or
you have to update it.
Keep smiling
yanosz
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