[QCLUG] wpa_supplicant

[Luke]

Hola,
  I've used WPA_supplicant for a while now on my HP DV8315nr laptop.  
Software works great as long as your card is among the list of supported 
ones.  In my case, I had to use NDISWrapper in combination with 
supplicant in order for the card to work properly under Slackware 11.  
Once the driver had been loaded and wlan0 was properly identified, I was 
able to use WEP and WPA, but not WPA2.  To make up for the lousy 
security of WPA and WEP, I'd suggest that you use MAC address filters on 
the router/gateway to prevent anyone with enough skill to get your 
passphrase from having a REALLY easy in for your network.

Best of luck,
Luke

Mark Overholser Jr wrote:
> I like the command line, for some sadistic reason. However, I have 
> resolved the issue that I was having (of course with a bit more googling).
>
> On 7/18/07, *Chris Jones * <exspecto@gmail.com 
> <mailto:exspecto@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     If you'd rather have a nice gui frontend to it, use "NetworkManager".
>     There's a kde and gnome specific version.
>
>     On 7/18/07, Mark Overholser Jr <omnipotent13@gmail.com
>     <mailto:omnipotent13@gmail.com>> wrote:
>     > I am trying to use wpa_supplicant to get my laptops to connect
>     to a home
>     > wireless network. Does anyone have experience using wpa_supplicant?
>     >
>     > Mark
>     >
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