[CentOS] Re: CentOS 4 and laptop and wifi works

Sun Jul 9 12:13:47 UTC 2006
Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com>

Tom Diehl wrote:
> Ralph Angenendt 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.
>>
>> You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely wrong.
>> Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it
>> works, though.
>>
>> <http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.0> - they put out the first
>> release based on madwifi-ng 2 days ago.
>
> I have been running madwifi-ng from cvs for some time now. I suspect 
> it is
> simply a matter of finding some time to come up with the magic 
> incantation
> to get it to work. 
If I should not be using the RH drivers from 
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/, is there someway for you to share 
your builds?