Mates, I'm toying with the idea of installing 9.3 on my Toshiba P35-629 laptop. One of the biggest concerns is whether I can get the Atheros wireless to work with the WPA-PSK TKIP security on the wireless lans I deal with. /usr/share/doc/packages/wireless-tools/README.wpa states: WPA is a system to enhance security for wireless LANs. The Linux support for it is not very mature yet and not all WLAN drivers support it already. You can use WPA with Atheros, Intel PRO/Wireless 2100/2200/2915, and Prism2/2.5/3 cards, the latter ones only with the hostap driver. This suggests that WPA will work with the Atheros wireless in the laptop. Has anybody else tried to install 9.3 on a P35-629?? Any thoughts are experiences are welcomed. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN LAW FIRM, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax www.rankinlawfirm.com --
david rankin writes:
I'm toying with the idea of installing 9.3 on my Toshiba P35-629 laptop. One of the biggest concerns is whether I can get the Atheros wireless to work with the WPA-PSK TKIP security on the wireless lans I deal with. /usr/share/doc/packages/wireless-tools/README.wpa states:
WPA is a system to enhance security for wireless LANs. The Linux support for it is not very mature yet and not all WLAN drivers support it already. You can use WPA with Atheros, Intel PRO/Wireless 2100/2200/2915, and Prism2/2.5/3 cards, the latter ones only with the hostap driver.
I have a Toshiba A65 laptop with the onboard Atheros wireless chip running SuSE 9.1, with WPA-PSK TKIP. For me, I had to download the wpa_supplicant package and compile/install it, compile and update the madwifi kernel module to a later version, and make some modifications in the network startup scripts to get things going. Some of this may not be necessary on 9.3, though. -Ti
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