[H-GEN] Wireless networking under Debian stable

[gavin duley]

On 8 Dec 2007, at 20:58, Mark Ellem wrote:

> Let's start with the basics. Do you have wpasupplicant installed?  
> The lines regarding WPA in your /etc/network/interfaces look okay  
> but will only function when wpasuplicant is there. You can also use  
> a plaintext string for the wpa-psk option if you wish. It makes  
> configuring a bit easier to understand (to humans) but could be a  
> security risk. Also, check to see that wireless-tools is installed  
> as well.

both wpasupplicant and wireless-tools are both installed and at the  
latest version for Debian stable

>> 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.
> From the output you have provided the card appears to based on a  
> chipset from Ralink. AFAIK the Linux drivers for these chipsets work  
> fine with WPA and I have had no issues connecting to encrypted  
> networks with such cards. I have a Ralink RT2500 based CardBus card  
> myself that I use as a spare.

That's good

>> 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.
> The chances of getting it working from what I see is very good, it  
> seems to be mainly a software problem you are having :-)
>
> Hope that helps and good luck getting it going.


thanks

Also on 8 Dec 2007, at 23:23:37, Ted Percival wrote:
> I had some pain with a USB RaLink device about a year ago, I don't  
> remember whether it was rt2400, rt2500 or something else. However I  
> saw recently that the rt2x00 driver for those devices is in  
> mainline, so you might consider running a more recent kernel, eg.  
> 2.6.22 from Debian testing.


I'm using 2.6.18-5-686 at the moment. I'd rather not have to upgrade  
the kernel if possible but if nothing else works then I'll look into  
that.

gavin,

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