On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 11:25:03AM -0600, Michael Torrie wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 10:42 -0600, Charles Curley wrote: > > > > Question: how do I get the security to work with the Linuxant driver > > loader? > > I'm afraid that getting WPA working under linux is equally hard with > linuxant and ndiswrapper. In both cases, you need an external program, > called a WPA supplicant. Not sure if this is the main one or supported > one, but google turns up http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/ > > An alternate supplicant is at http://open1x.sourceforge.net/ > > I know from personal experience it is a beast to get working. In fact > the only person I know who has attempted it never got it working. > (Bought a powerbook... haha). > > Finally a good overview of the technology and linux is http://www.linux- > wireless.org/Wireless/WPA/
I tried linuxant's version of wpa_supplicant, and that didn't work. I tried the original version, and could't find out which driver to use before compiling wpa_supplicant. So that was a waste of several hours. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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