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