Simon Wong wrote:
On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 21:16, Simon Males wrote:
Its like looking for the digital holy grail.
Feels like it :-)
Can't wait till WPA support hits the streets, so I can finally WiFi at uni in linux.
Yeah, what a drag!
Prism2/2.5/3 cards are the one for that. Using hostap drivers, with the hostapd service.
Okay but the thing is working out which damn cards have which chipsets :-(
I feel I'm stuck in a Google whirlpool...
Does anyone have any experience with these cards or another on the list?
Yeah its pretty good, but I keep hitting this bug.
http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87
I'm wondering whether to stick with 802.11b for the moment and find a Prism2/2.5/3 based card.
This might be a bit late now but I thought it might be of use to some.
I've finally got wpa (TKIP+PEAP+MSCHAPv2) happening on my laptop at Uni.
Using a DLink DWL-G650 Atheros based card (RevC) running the MADWiFi driver & wpa_supplicant on 2.4.27 (haven't had time to try on 2.6 kernel) I finally have access to the Uni network with Linux. Ahhhhhh what a nice relief.
My main prob was due to the lack of support for Linux at UOW. No one there could tell me how to get hold of the ca certificate so I just logged in using XP , copied and converted that ca certificate on Linux and SHAZAAM !! I'm now cruising on 802.11 a & b @ UOW's WiFi network.
Oh yeah and KDE3.2's KWiFiManager works a treat.
So, if ne1's still shopping for a card, you may wish to consider an Atheros based card *IF* the others seem a bit tricky. ;)
- Rocci.
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