On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:22 PM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Listmates, > > My second Arch box is now complete (well almost:-) This time a desktop box > with a zytel wireless lan adapter using the TI acx chipset and its firmware 2 > is the acx111_2.3.1.31/tiacx111c16 firmware slice. The card is detected and > works fine it think... I can open kwifimanager and it has my access point > associated and I can watch the generic packets blip by and watch the strength > meter do its thing, but I cannot authenticate :-( > > My system is WPA, and no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find anything in > Arch that would all me to configure the wireless as anything other than WEP. > Bummer. Wep isn't allowed within 500 feet of anything I deal with. After > spending a little time playing with aircrack, if you haven't already, you will > definitely feel the same. Most wep secured wireless networkss can be cracked in > less than 30 seconds. (why do you think I'm never without a wireless connection > -- no matter where I go;-) > > So what tools are available to configure this acx111 card to use WPA-TKIP or > WPA2? In that other Linux OS, the knetworkmanager utility did a great job with > the Atheros bashed card in my laptop, XP has no problems with the card (this > box is dual boot) so I know the hardware works fine. Any suggestions? netcfg, it's in core and is recommended on the Wireless Setup page... http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
