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

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/>

Max