Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I have a "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev > 02)" wireless card. I am able to access the wireless connection from a > router (linksys wrt54g) by adding a stanza into /etc/network/interfaces if > the wireless connection does not use any authentication. However if the > router is using WPA authentication (using TKIP algorithm) then I am not > sure howto set it up. There seem to be umpteen number of ways of doing > this. There seem to be packages that are no longer maintained, packages > that are deprecated etc., Is there a good comprehensive documentation on > setting up wireless in Debian using WPA authentication (for all the > wireless cards and not just for my wireless card)? > > I was looking at http://wiki.debian.org/WPA but it seems pretty incomplete > to say the least. Any ideas?
Hello Raju. Its sounds as though you have wireless working without authentication but you want to add WPA authentication. I think that you need to install the wpasupplicant package. You can then read the details in file /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian. Here is the top of the file in Etch: "wpasupplicant is now integrated into ifupdown. You can configure it in /etc/network/interfaces, in a similar method to configuring WEP keys[1]. After that, wpa_supplicant will be controlled by ifupdown without further user intervention. "For details about integration into the interfaces file, refer to /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz" /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes.gz explains how to modify /etc/network/interfaces. Hope that helps. It looks straightforward. I have not tested it myself yet, but it's on my list of things to do. -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
