HI
I admit up front that I know just enough about wireless networking to know
that I don't know much at all about it.
That said, I'm hoping someone can help me learn a little bit...
Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be able
to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security settings?
I don't know if WPA depends on hardware support, or if it'll work on
any ole machine. Nor do I know what is involved in making it happen.
Clues would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
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sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
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On Jan 26, 2008 6:18 PM, fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:> > That said, I'm hoping someone can help me learn a little bit... > Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be able > to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security settings?The short answer is "yes." The longer answer is "it depends on how well-supported by the current set of drivers is your wireless NIC." You might try looking at http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Laptops for your model or one like it.
Hello Fred,
Good luck with that, I'm still trying to find ANY currently available
wireless PC card that will work without using NDISWrapper. :)
Sorry I wasn't any help,
Manuel
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Subject: [CentOS] WPA question
HI
I admit up front that I know just enough about wireless networking to know
that I don't know much at all about it.
That said, I'm hoping someone can help me learn a little bit...
Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be able
to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security settings?
I don't know if WPA depends on hardware support, or if it'll work on any
ole
machine. Nor do I know what is involved in making it happen.
Clues would be appreciated.
Thanks!
--
---- Fred Smith -- fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us
-----------------------------
"For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged
sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow;
it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart."
---------------------------- Hebrews 4:12 (niv)
------------------------------
fred smith wrote: Hello.> Specifically, could a laptop running Centos 5.1 be expected to (be > able to) connect to a wireless access point using WPA2 security > settings?Yes, it could. I am using a laptop with a pcmcia wlan card with wpa2 and aes and 54Mbit/s. It is connected with a speedport 701 access point. This is working cause of the ralink rt61 chipset of the wlan card. This setting is working without any problems here. You can get the driver from http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html. You have to compile this driver after each new kernel update. The most problem is to find a wlan card with a ralink rt61 chipset at the moment. I have found one at http://www.tuxhardware.de/product431/product_info.html for my second notebook. regards Olaf