[arch-general] WPA2 - How to set with ACX card??

[James Rayner]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 7:22 PM, David C. Rankin
<drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:
> 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 :-(
>
>        My system is WPA, and no matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find anything in
> Arch that would all me to configure the wireless as anything other than WEP.
> Bummer. Wep isn't allowed within 500 feet of anything I deal with. After
> spending a little time playing with aircrack, if you haven't already, you will
> definitely feel the same. Most wep secured wireless networkss can be cracked in
> less than 30 seconds. (why do you think I'm never without a wireless connection
> -- no matter where I go;-)
>
>        So what tools are available to configure this acx111 card to use WPA-TKIP or
> WPA2? In that other Linux OS, the knetworkmanager utility did a great job with
> the Atheros bashed card in my laptop, XP has no problems with the card (this
> box is dual boot) so I know the hardware works fine. Any suggestions?

netcfg, it's in core and is recommended on the Wireless Setup page...
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg