HI
I admit up front that I know just enough about wireless networking to know that I don't know much at all about it.
That said, I'm hoping someone can help me learn a little bit... Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be able to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security settings?
I don't know if WPA depends on hardware support, or if it'll work on any ole machine. Nor do I know what is involved in making it happen.
Clues would be appreciated.
Thanks!
On Jan 26, 2008 6:18 PM, fred smith fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
That said, I'm hoping someone can help me learn a little bit... Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be able to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security settings?
The short answer is "yes." The longer answer is "it depends on how well-supported by the current set of drivers is your wireless NIC."
You might try looking at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops for your model or one like it.
Hello Fred,
Good luck with that, I'm still trying to find ANY currently available wireless PC card that will work without using NDISWrapper. :)
Sorry I wasn't any help, Manuel
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of fred smith Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2008 6:19 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] WPA question
HI
I admit up front that I know just enough about wireless networking to know that I don't know much at all about it.
That said, I'm hoping someone can help me learn a little bit... Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be able to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security settings?
I don't know if WPA depends on hardware support, or if it'll work on any ole machine. Nor do I know what is involved in making it happen.
Clues would be appreciated.
Thanks! -- ---- Fred Smith -- fredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us ----------------------------- "For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
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fred smith wrote:
Hello.
Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be able to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security settings?
Yes, it could. I am using a laptop with a pcmcia wlan card with wpa2 and aes and 54Mbit/s. It is connected with a speedport 701 access point. This is working cause of the ralink rt61 chipset of the wlan card. This setting is working without any problems here. You can get the driver from http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html. You have to compile this driver after each new kernel update.
The most problem is to find a wlan card with a ralink rt61 chipset at the moment. I have found one at http://www.tuxhardware.de/product431/product_info.html for my second notebook.
regards Olaf
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:39:01PM +0100, Olaf Mueller wrote:
fred smith wrote:
Hello.
Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be able to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security settings?
Yes, it could. I am using a laptop with a pcmcia wlan card with wpa2 and aes and 54Mbit/s. It is connected with a speedport 701 access point. This is working cause of the ralink rt61 chipset of the wlan card. This setting is working without any problems here. You can get the driver from http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html. You have to compile this driver after each new kernel update.
The most problem is to find a wlan card with a ralink rt61 chipset at the moment. I have found one at http://www.tuxhardware.de/product431/product_info.html for my second notebook.
Thanks, Olaf, as well as those others who have replied.
I guess I'm going to have to figure out what wireless chipset is in use in this laptop. It's built in and "just works" for WEP, without effort, so one could hope it's well-enough supported for WPA.
A year or so ago when I first got my wireless router (Linksys WRT54GL) I couldn't get WPA to work with FC5, but then I didn't have a clue HOW, either. Since that is my only wireless device, and since I don't use it a lot at home (mostly for travel) I usually leave wireless disabled in the router anyway, especially since WEP isn't secure.
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