[H-GEN] wireless networks

[Robert Stanford]

Nikolai Lusan wrote:

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> Greetings all,
>
> I was wondering what software people are using, on linux, to
> automatically detect and configure wireless networks. I had been looking
> at waproamd, but the site claims that it has some race conditions which
> can't be fixed. It also suggests wpa_supplicant as an alternative - the
> only issue there is that supplicant doesn't seem to handle wep for 11b/g
> networks. I am onloy using a couple of networks, and for the moment they
> are b/g with wep (issues with people only having 802.11b - a standard
> that does not support WPA).
>
wpa_supplicant works fine if you ned it.

I'm using a dlink card with the xp drivers through ndiswrapper on ubuntu 
the whole thing works rather well.

Robbie