Tom Diehl wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> 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. > > Well actually the -ng designation is gone now. > > If you read the announcements here: http://madwifi.org/ you will find > this: > > "Note: June 2006, "madwifi-old" has been deprecated, it is no longer > supported. > All users are encouraged to use an official release tarball, which > contains a > stable snapshot of svn trunk." I did dig that all out. It just threw me at first. 11-ng carries a lot of political IEEE 802 baggage. > >> 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? > > I have been successfully using the madwifi drivers from > http://madwifi.org/ > for several weeks. When I last looked, the stuff at atrpms was out of > date. > That may be corrected by now but it is easy enough to get the latest > driver, > so it makes sense to build your own. But so far, I have only done ONE build of my own. I have my docs from that time and now I have to put it all together to see if I can do it for real. The files are dated 5/31/06 which is after the madwifi-ng release. > > It turns out that if you take one of the daily tarballs from > subversion and > run "rpmbuild -ta tarball_name" it will build a driver that "just works". > All I had to do to get it to work with no encryption was plug in the > card. All of my APs here have some level of encryption. I was one of the contributors to 11i; you know, eat your own dogfood. > > In order to get wpa to work I had to configure wpa_supplicant and > start it > by hand after the card is inserted. Sigh. > > In my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file I have something > like the > following: > > # Run the following command to add another wpa network to the system: > # wpa_passphrase YOURSSID yourpassphrase > # mtd 27 May 06 Passphrase will work for some, but I need PEAP-MSCHAP. > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant > ctrl_interface_group=wheel > > network={ > ssid="my_accesspoint" > psk=8f12345672d565a2611c29dfaea6abac90432112341562e49f3c8801bf > } I will make note of this.. > Having said all of the above I must confess that, I have never > actually tried > any of this on a centos system. My laptop runs FC5 so things might be > slightly > different. > > Hope this helps, yes!