Re: [Nolug] bcm43xx-fwcutter

From: Jeffrey Brite <jeff_at_896tech.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:12:34 -0500
Message-ID: <46250E12.2090905@896tech.com>

hmmm... well I have my laptop running sarge working on out WPA wireless
right now.

and to chime in on the security conversation, I read the WPA was
crackable, but much harder. As I understand the only setup that is
getting respect is WPA with a radius server. At least that is what I read.

-Jeff

Techmaster wrote:
> Jeff, I figured it out. I did some more research, and figured out
> that fwcutter/ndiswrapper must be incompatible with WPA. I just
> installed a fresh copy of linux (trying out the beta of ubuntu
> feisty), changed my router to use WEP instead of WPA, and it worked on
> the first try. I've been wracking my brain over this for over a year,
> all along it was just an easily fixable incompatibility issue. What's
> even weirder, is I got WPA working under 64 bit gentoo. It was not
> easy, and not an experience that I would want to relive. So far I'm
> very happy with this though...and feisty is running great on this
> zv6000, with 1.25GB of RAM. I do wish there was better WPA support,
> since it's more secure. Oh well.
>
> On 4/14/07, *Techmaster* < techmaster@gmail.com
> <mailto:techmaster@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I'm just wondering if last week counted as this month's
> meeting. ;)
>
>
> On 4/14/07, *Joey Kelly* < joey@joeykelly.net
> <mailto:joey@joeykelly.net>> wrote:
>
> On Saturday 14 April 2007 14:49, Christopher Jones wrote:
> > Yeah that was me. I think I followed those same directions,
> but in Gentoo.
> > I got it working in 64 bit, but not 32. Is there still a
> meeting this
> > month for the regularly scheduled day? Or was that it last
> week? I'll
> > have to bring my laptop and maybe you can show me what you did.
>
> That's next week.
>
> --
> Joey Kelly
> < Minister of the Gospel | Linux Consultant >
> http://joeykelly.net <http://joeykelly.net>
>
> How many spyware pop-ups did you get on your Windows computer
> today?
>
>
>
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