Tom Diehl wrote:
On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
Ralph Angenendt Wrote:
Tom Diehl wrote:
> Have you succeeded in getting wpa encryption working with the
Atheros/madwifi
> drivers??
>
> My madwifi card works just fine with no encryption but I cannot
get it to
> work with the wpa encryption turned on.
You need the madwifi-ng driver to use WPA, if I'm not completely
wrong.
Having no WPA enabled access point to test it on, I couldn't say if it
works, though.
Well actually the -ng designation is gone now.
If you read the announcements here: http://madwifi.org/ you will find
this:
"Note: June 2006, "madwifi-old" has been deprecated, it is no longer
supported.
All users are encouraged to use an official release tarball, which
contains a
stable snapshot of svn trunk."
I did dig that all out. It just threw me at first. 11-ng carries a lot
of political IEEE 802 baggage.
If I should not be using the RH drivers from
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/madwifi/, is there someway for you to
share your builds?
I have been successfully using the madwifi drivers from
http://madwifi.org/
for several weeks. When I last looked, the stuff at atrpms was out of
date.
That may be corrected by now but it is easy enough to get the latest
driver,
so it makes sense to build your own.
But so far, I have only done ONE build of my own. I have my docs from
that time and now I have to put it all together to see if I can do it
for real.
The files are dated 5/31/06 which is after the madwifi-ng release.
It turns out that if you take one of the daily tarballs from
subversion and
run "rpmbuild -ta tarball_name" it will build a driver that "just works".
All I had to do to get it to work with no encryption was plug in the
card.
All of my APs here have some level of encryption. I was one of the
contributors to 11i; you know, eat your own dogfood.
In order to get wpa to work I had to configure wpa_supplicant and
start it
by hand after the card is inserted.
Sigh.
In my /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file I have something
like the
following:
# Run the following command to add another wpa network to the system:
# wpa_passphrase YOURSSID yourpassphrase
# mtd 27 May 06
Passphrase will work for some, but I need PEAP-MSCHAP.
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="my_accesspoint"
psk=8f12345672d565a2611c29dfaea6abac90432112341562e49f3c8801bf
}
I will make note of this..
Having said all of the above I must confess that, I have never
actually tried
any of this on a centos system. My laptop runs FC5 so things might be
slightly
different.
Hope this helps,
yes!
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