[H-GEN] Wireless networking under Debian stable

[Clinton Roy]

Hi Gavin,

On Dec 5, 2007 11:51 PM, gavin duley <gpd at snoopy.apana.org.au> wrote:

> Here are the error messages from ifup eth0
>
> frodo:/home/helen# ifup eth0
> ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4

Have you tried the hostap driver instead of the wext driver?


> The card I'm using is a PCMCIA D-Link DWL-650. From some googleing, it
> seems that not all revisions of this card work with WPA so this could
> be my problem. However, I'm hoping it's not that.

It's certainly true that some configurations of WPA require help from
the card, I don't know too much about it though.

> Is there any chance that I should be able to get WPA working with this
> card under Linux? Or should I just not be so paranoid about
> unencrypted wireless.

Security should always be something you think about, I'll let mark expound ;)

hth,
-- 
Clinton Roy
CSIRO - Robotics Platform Engineer
Autonomous Systems Lab

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