Thomas Bächler wrote: > 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. > UUgh! No wonder the wireless cards were being excessed for $14. You hit the nail on the head Thomas: [16:02 supersff:/home/david] # wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'wext' ctrl_interface 'N/A' bridge 'N/A' Configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' -> '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' Reading configuration file '/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf' ctrl_interface='DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=wheel' eapol_version=1 ap_scan=1 fast_reauth=1 Line: 6 - start of a new network block <snip> WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5 Own MAC address: 00:13:49:54:2b:c9 wpa_driver_wext_set_wpa Driver does not support WPA. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ** I updated the wiki to reflect this fact. Well, since it works flawlessly under XP and I have the install CD, looks like I'll have to put my dislike of using the windows driver aside and run ndiswrapper :-( -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com
