David C. Rankin schrieb:
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 :-(
Short answer: Throw that thing away!Long answer: There is an opensource driver (tiacx, I think that is the one from the repos) that was reverse-engineered, but IIRC has no support for anything but WEP or Open. According to some linux wireless guys (sorry, I don't have a source here, I only recall this from memory) this driver was not created by proper clean-room techniques, so they cannot reuse the code.
There is another driver called tiacx-mac80211 that should support WPA and such, but is apparently very broken/unfinished and was created from the tiacx source, so the above applies again.
The only chance of getting reliable WPA with the tiacx chipset is probably ndiswrapper.
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