Archive for the ‘Kernel’ Category
WPA/IPW2200/Linux/Debian 3
After hearing about Network Manager on LugRadio at Guadec I decided to give it a go.
A bit of messing around – including installing the version from Testing I found out I need a new kernel for WPA.
Of I went and got 2.6.17 and compiled it.
Things of Note:
I had to use the ieee80211 module and the [...]
July 6, 2006
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Good Wireless News
After a few weeks of use – I can confirm my wireless works well by just starting wp-supplicant. No constant restarting and removing/radding of modules hoping to get a use-able speed. The speed can sometimes be a bit poor – but at least its use-able and doesn’t hinder unless transferring large files.
May 25, 2006
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WPA/IPW2200/Linux/Debian 2
Yes once again I have to go through the pain of WPA/IPW2200/Debian/Kernel problems. Given that I have a laptop I wanted more laptop like features on my system – so I kernel upgrade was needed.
Currently using:
Kernel 2.6.14
-Wireless Extension v19.
Debian Etch + Extra apt sources
wpa_supplicant v0.4.7
Wireless-Tools version 28
The problem this time is that I needed [...]
April 15, 2006
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WPA/IPW2200/Linux/Debian
Wireless on Linux sucks. It seems everytime one little bit in the chain of programs, firmware and drivers changes I lose WPA capabilities. In fact currently Debian, IPW2000 and wpa_supplicent don’t work together, and apparently this happens on a number of other distributions.
I have got it working, but I used a custom 2.6.12 [...]
January 9, 2006
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