On Thu, 25 May 2006, Max H. wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the Atheros/madwifi drivers??
My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot get it to work with the wpa encryption turned on.
That I have not yet tried. I use just normal WEP encryption and it's always worked fine. I know WEP isn't super secure, but if I have anything I don't want broadcasting I simply use a wire. There aren't any other wireless networks in my neighborhood, so I haven't really care to try it.
ATrpms has two different wpa_supplicant RPMs, but I don't know enough about WPA to say whether or not I'm on target with pointing you to this. From the small changelog at the bottom of these links say "added madwifi support," so I'm assuming it's supposed to work.
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/wpa_supplicant/ http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/wpa_supplicant-eap-fast/
As a followup to this I got madwifi and wpa_supplicant working last night. Whoooooooo!!
I used 0.9.0 driver from the madwifi site. I could not even get the drivers from atrpms to bring the interface up. I must have missed something. Anyway, I figured since the drivers on the madwifi site were newer I would go that way.
I used a specfile that I got off of the old madwifi site to build a set of rpms. It is not real pretty but it worked.
The box has been up for pver 8 hours with no disconnects from the network. In fact I am writing this message over the wireless network. :-)
For those interested here is the output of lspci -vv: 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: PROXIM Inc Unknown device 0a40 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 168 (2500ns min, 7000ns max), Cache Line Size 20 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: Memory at 34000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K] Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=375mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-
lspci -n: 03:00.0 0200: 168c:0013 (rev 01)
Now I just need to find a way to manage multiple wpa encrypted connections easially.
Regards,
Tom Diehl tdiehl@rogueind.com Spamtrap address mtd123@rogueind.com