On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:15:11PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > According to what I have read, the 'orinoco' driver that is supposed to > also work for my 'intersil prism2' pcmcia card, does not support WPA.
indeed > Before I learnt that, I did try to remove 'hostap'. I tried several ... > hostap_cs.conf, so as to bind my intersil card to orinoco, but, by then, > I had realized that in any case this was not wpa compatible, so I didn't > bother. note that hostap* pkgs and hostap driver are different matter: the 1st are the pkgs while the latter is the kernel driver. For AP station you need hostapd, for client station wpa_supplicant. But you also need to check that your card can actually support WPA: > "Station firmware version needs to be 1.7.0 or newer to work in WPA mode" that's the culprint now. > I suppose that the so called 'station firmware', or 'STA firmware', is > the peace of software that is inside the pcmcia card... ? How am I to > know which version it is ? There is nothing written on it for that matter. - check card docs - check card with card's own utils (if any) - check dmesg output on driver load eg I've got an old Avaya orinoco_cs card: eth1: Hardware identity 0001:0001:0004:0002 eth1: Station identity 001f:0001:0007:001c eth1: Firmware determined as Lucent/Agere 7.28 eth1: Ad-hoc demo mode supported eth1: IEEE standard IBSS ad-hoc mode supported eth1: WEP supported, 104-bit key eth1: MAC address 00:02:2d:xx:xx:xx eth1: Station name "HERMES I" eth1: ready eth1: orinoco_cs at 0.0, irq 3, io 0x3100-0x313f and got latest fw from vendors's site. This card isn't supported by hostap_cs, nor it would support WPA at all. 802.1x could be a better option then plain WEP anyway, but for my needs WEP104 is/was fine. - check prism2 sites, suitable fw may be avail there - beware though that a wrong fw may turn your card into a brick. - if you can't use WEP, and your card can't do WAP, and you can't setup a VPN (like your case, for a simple DSL modem on the other end), well, you have no choice but buy another card/USB-wlan. HTH -- paolo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
