On 4/1/06, Thomas Ploch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Written by Bin Zhang:
>
> >With the very good surprise, it works with WPA and in a simple way:
> >the only thing to do is to modprobe bcm43xx and to configure
> >wpa_supplicant, I don't need to make the other iwconfig or iwlist.
> >
> >With the debian unstable (wpasupplicant 0.4.8-1), I put in
> >/etc/network/interfaces
> >iface eth1 inet dhcp
> > wpa-conf/home/user/.wpa/wpa_supplicant.conf
> > pre-up modprobe bcm43xx
> > post-down modprobe -r bcm43xx
> >and use "ifup/ifdown eth1".
> >
> Yes, its pretty easy that way, I can even get an IP-Address on boot,
> the only thing that is concerning me, is that with wpa_supplicant, I dont get
> more
> than 24 kb/s on a __16Mb__ line. Is there a possible explanantion for that?
>
I have just discovered that I have also this problem. I get about
35kb/s with softmac. (I can get about 145 kb/s with dscape, it's the
max on my adsl line).
Regards,
Bin
> My wpa_supplicant.conf:
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=0
>
> eapol_version=1
> ap_scan=1
> fast_reauth=1
>
> network={
> ssid="my_essid"
> scan_ssid=1
> key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
> proto=WPA
> pairwise=TKIP
> auth_alg=OPEN
> group=TKIP WEP104
> psk="my_psk"
> }
>
> I entered the rate value in my /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> iface eth1 inet dhcp
> wireless-rate 24M #since the 54M option is not working for a (still
> unknown) reason
> pre-up ifconfig eth1 up
> pre-up /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -Bw -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> #somehow the broadcom driver is NOT supported
> post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant
>
> Has somebody the same problem, or even a solution?
> Thanks, Thomas
>
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