On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:13:50 -0700 Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Lan, you don't say anything r.e. your wireless laptop card or chipset (or even that you're talking linux vs. windows laptop). Does PCMCIA recognize your card ? Or are we talking builtin chipset ? It looks like the router is 802.11g by default, supporting WPA/WPA-PSK, but linux support on the laptop side is limited, with native support for 802.11g being limited principally to prism32 chipsets. I think you can use wpa_supplicant even with 802.11b (but I'm not positive) so it's possible you could your 802.1x with WPA. If possible, you would probably like to run 802.11g (better speed) with WPA-PSK (pre-shared key), but you could fall back on 802.1x with WPA or WEP if you can't get WPA working on the laptop. To get something working at all -> try selecting 802.1x with WEP enabled, and set the WEP key on the router and laptop using whatever network configuration tool on the laptop, see if you can pick up your wireless network on the laptop (good tools iwconfig, iwlist eg 'iwlist wlan0 scan' should give some output of what's floating around your neighborhood). OK, so if can work with 802.1x, then proceed to try 802.11g and WPA (WEP is *very* crackable with easily available tools). If you're running linux on the laptop and have a prism wireless chipset, you'll have to pick up the prism32 drivers, and wpa_supplicant (and/or x_supplicant), and compile these tools. The prism32 drivers require a 2.6 kernel and a kernel patch (or used to, maybe the kernel has now caught up). The wpa_supplicant package is standalone. You use the tools in the wpa_supplicant package to make a key from the WPA passphrase which you insert into a little script to negotiate the connection and encryptation for the wireless connection. Alternatively, if you don't have 802.11g chipset supported under linux, for a few $$ you can buy the linuxant driver loaders (works with most everything, including Intel Centrino), which loads the windows drivers software under linux (you'll also still need wpa_supplicant). There is an opensource project that similarly tries to wrap the windows drivers (blocking on the name, something-wrappers), but I don't know how wide chipset support is (was pretty narrow when I looked). I use a WG511 802.11g card with linuxant drivers and wpa_supplicant to connect with a netgear wireless router using WPA-PSK under Suse 9.0 on my laptop. David Looney > I posted this to Newbie where it died of loneliness. Maybe it was the > wrong list ... > > *** > > OK, I got the Airlink 101 working. The reason the headless server was > failing to go out through it was that the MB eth cnx has no mac > address (giving me a "huh" moment -- like, how did it ever work?). I > put in a 3com card and that's doing fine. Had to turn off kudzu, edit > some configs, etc. > > Now to tighten that puppy down. I've read all Tracy's recent rants, > but I'm new to this. > > The router has the options: > > Shared key > WPA > WPA-PSK > 802.1x > > Then there's a line that says > > WEP () Enabled () Disabled > > Then there's configuring the wireless card in the laptop. It would > never do to lock up the router and be unable to connect. > > A little help here ... ? > > TIA, > > *** > > Maybe my questions weren't clear. Which option should I select? Should > I enable WEP? How do I configure the laptop card to match the router > choices? > > -- > Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
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