[CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
first, the short form of the question -- has anyone got that wireless adapter working on centos 5.5 and associated with an access point that uses WPA/WPA2 security? and the details. in a classroom where there is *no* wired networking at all, all PCs have only that wireless net adapter,

Re: [CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  however, that still doesn't do it as based on what i've read online), because the access point here uses WPA/WPA2, i need to use wpa_supplicant to be able to configure the wireless interface for that.  and that's

Re: [CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  however, that still doesn't do it as based on what i've read online), because the access point here uses WPA/WPA2, i need to use wpa_supplicant to be able to configure

[CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: there is a CD that came with the adapters, with a Linux directory, so it was easy enough to dump that onto my personal centos 5.5 box, and run make which generated the loadable rt3070sta.ko module. and, yes, that module loads. so far, so good.

Re: [CentOS] how to get ASUS USB-N13 802.11n net adapter working on 5.5?

2010-09-28 Thread Scott Robbins
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:11:56PM -0400, R P Herrold wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Robert P. J. Day wrote: heh -- wpa_supplicant is 'lightly' documented, and the process for getting a wholly text mode wireless connection, and auto-selecting between open and secure with WPA or WPA2 AP's