FreeBSD 6, WPA-PSK, wpa_supplicant and a IBM a31p

Daniel Hanson dhanson at securityfocus.com
Sun Dec 18 12:47:13 PST 2005


-- uwe at laverenz.de said --

>Yes, probably WPA-encryption is simply not supported by your wireless
>card/chipset. AFAIK there is no way to use WPA with a wi-card. You either
>stick to WEP-encryption or buy a newer wireless card (ath or iwi would
>do WPA-PSK).

It was my understanding that WPA could be used on any network card, and is a function of the driver rather than the underlying card. I could be mistaken on that, but I havne't been able to find anything definitive that the wi driver doesn't allow this, and the card (using a different prism2 driver than available from ibm) works under windows (just got it working to see if it was the card). I got it working with WPA-PSK TKIP and I still fail under freebsd, so I figure it's either a bug or I am missing some configuration parameter. 

So. works under windows, anyone have an idea of how I might try and isolate if this is a driver issue or a config issue? 

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