Re: wireless on Debian
Hardware configurations sure makes a difference. I just loaded the
bcm43xx module and blacklisted ndiswrapper. My system became absolutely
unusable for accomplishing anything. The mouse cursor freezes
intermittently, windows not maximized jump around on the desktop, and
all the while cpu usage never goes beyond about 2%.
I sure would like to see the configuations of anyone who can use the
bcm43xx module with the broadcom 4318 chip and wpa_supplicant. I'd much
rather use the open source module than the Windows drivers, but it just
seems to be impossible on my system.
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 19:52 -0600, Mr Alk3 wrote:
> I am using WEP encryption, but can set up WPA etc etc. I did notice
> that when I was configuring the interface to connect to the WEP
> encrypted AP that it wasn't finding any of the WEP access point in the
> area. I might have to change my AP to use WPA as I am seeing that most
> people are getting bcm43xx working with WPA and not WEP. I could be
> wrong though.
>
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:23:14AM +0100, pinniped wrote:
> >
> > I know there's a section on how to set up wireless stuff in the Debian docs
> > but I can't find it at the moment.
> >
> > Anyway, if you use PSK-TKIP, look here for an example:
> > http://wiki.debian.org/Manual-Howto#head-6fdd87d329e68a583e5fde32c6b21e460e5541a5
> >
> > If you use WPA-PSK (default on WinDos and therefore on most AP applicances)
> > then you also need the 'wpa supplicant' software - with somne hardware,
> > everything needs to be done through that, but with other hardware things
> > are managed magically through the 'interfaces' file but you still need to
> > install the supplicant to generate a key using the wpa_passphrase tool.
> > for example, my entry in 'interfaces' looks something like this:
> >
> > auto eth2 (yes, the driver calls it eth2 rather than wlan0)
> > allow-hotplug eth2
> > iface eth2 inet dhcp
> > wpa-conf managed
> > wpa-ssid goaway
> > wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
> > wpa-psk blahbalhablhablahblahablhablah (the key)
> >
> > To generate the key:
> > wpa_passphrase SSID PASSPHRASE -- so:
> > wpa_passphrase goaway thisISthePASSphrase
> >
> >
> >
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