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

[Dave Heistand]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:25:56PM +1000, James Rayner wrote:
> 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
> 

My preference is wpa_auto:

<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21491>