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

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Wed Apr 29 10:19:25 EDT 2009


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

And for a GUI solution, Networkmanager/knetworkmanager should also work 
fine with WPA.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Networkmanager

DR


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