On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 17:16 -0600, Killer Smurf wrote: > I have migrated my wife to ubuntu ( her and I are both new ) and > having issues with the wireless card. I have the card itself working > well and have updated the madwifi drivers and it works great but now I > want to use WPA-PSK encryption on it. I have found that there is very > little documention I can find online and am wondering if anyone has > had exper. with this issue. I'm sorry if this is not where to post > these questions and if it's not I'm sorry. >
You will need the wpasupplicant package, which is easy in the Debian distros: You can use whatever gui tool Ubuntu uses to install packages, likely something like synaptic or perhaps something ubuntu branded. I still use the console for the majority of package management (aptitude is my app of choice), but the following should do the trick as well: sudo apt-get install wpasupplicant From there you you will need to check out the atheros/madwifi specific stuff (I have prism and prism54 based cards). Try these links as a starting point: http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/ http://fedoranews.org/blog/?p=599 (fedora based but should give some usefull info/tips. http://vivisimo.com/search?query=wpa-psk+linux+madwifi+debian&v% 3Aproject=vivisimo-com&v%3Asources=Web&x=0&y=0 (watch the wrap, this is a search query I used for debian but should be valid for Ubuntu as well) I personally use 64bit wep just to keep out the casual war drivers. Everything else tends to run across ssh or ssl/tls so I am not all that worried about security. I also use MAC filtering on my AP as well. This setup has been stable for several years and the advent of WPA did not hold enough gain for the work involved. Let us know how you make out. Cheers, > Thanks > -Frank > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying
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