Darrick Hartman (lists) wrote:
> Kristian Kielhofner wrote:
>> On 4/21/08, Kevin Kiely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Does anyone know if any of the wireless USB adapters are supported with
>>>  ASTLinux, like the Netgear WG111?  If so, which are know to work well
>>>  natively with ASTLinux?
>>>
>>>  Thanks,
>>>
>>>  Kevin
>>>
>> Kevin,
>>
>>   Just about any cards supported by Linux should be supported by
>> AstLinux.  Due to the generic nature of chipsets it's tough to say
>> which brands are supported.
>>
>>   However, if I were you I'd look out for something Atheros based
>> (supported by madwifi).
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> Before you put too much effort into this, Astlinux does not implement 
> WPA_supplicant in anyway, so the best encryption (if you call it that) 
> is WEP.  It's something on the list to do, but not near the top yet.  If 
> the encryption is not important, then as Kristian said, the chips 
> supported by madwifi probably would be your best choice.
> 
> Darrick

I have built hostapd (0.5.10) for astlinux 1.2, which provides wpa/wpa2 
and works really well.  I built it with madwifi-ng r3349-20080212.

I modified the hostap makefile quite a bit, I'll provide it if anyone is 
interested.

Terry

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