OS/2, eCS & ArcaOS - Technical > Networking
Intel 2915 abg Wireless and WPA2 with Genmac
Holger Schuett:
Hi Andi,
--- Quote from: Andi B. on June 10, 2014, 08:41:05 am ---
--- Quote ---I tried with the 2.2 Beta, and I even tried the GUI included with the build of P. Smedley. This is what worked on my X 61 finally.
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So I think the X61 should work with xwlan3.12(beta) too. Did you try it?
Did you by any chance search 'gmane.org.netlabs.genmac.user' list if this was discussed earlier?
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On the X61 I tried with the 3.12 beta ( I believe, but right now I installed Linux Mint on the x61).
What happened was: sometimes I could connect, mostly not. I then tried the GUI which comes with the wpa-supplicant form P. Smedley. This helped
on the x61, I could establish a connection everytime I tried.
And I did search on gmane.org:
I found this: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=100.f0840d00e23d4d4f.014%40telus.net
and this: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=000.20300500a04d024f.007%40telus.net
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote ---And I did search on gmane.org:
I found this: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=100.f0840d00e23d4d4f.014%40telus.net
and this: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=000.20300500a04d024f.007%40telus.net
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I never did get that thing to work with WPA2. My brother has the T43 now, and I forgot all about trying the new supplicant and XWLAN with it, when I visited about a month ago. I don't think his router will do WPA2 anyway.
Hopefully, the Multimac project will pick up that device and fix the problems, eventually. Meanwhile, it seems that one is limited to WPA, unless the new supplicant, and/or XWLAN, fixes the problem.
Andi B.:
--- Quote ---...unless the new supplicant, and/or XWLAN, fixes the problem...
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It seems to me the problem is either in genmac or wpa_supplicant. TTBOMK XWLAN starts the supplicant and waits for a valid secured connection before it fires up dhclient or ..... If connection is not established through the supplicant there seems to be nothing I can do in XWLAN against this problem. If someone proves me wrong I'll look into this. F.i. if it was possible to establish a connection with Pauls build of the wpa GUI but not with XWLAN this would change things. I'm sorry but currently it does not make sense to me searching this problem in XWLAN.
Doug Bissett:
--- Quote from: Andi B. on June 10, 2014, 09:20:37 pm ---
--- Quote ---...unless the new supplicant, and/or XWLAN, fixes the problem...
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It seems to me the problem is either in genmac or wpa_supplicant.
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When I was investigating the problem (more than a year ago), everything seemed to point to a flaw in GENMAC. I tried a couple of suplicant updates (but not the latest), with no change. I am not 100% sure, but I think I did try the wpa GUI, with no better results.
Boris:
--- Quote from: Doug Bissett on June 10, 2014, 06:24:51 pm ---
--- Quote ---And I did search on gmane.org:
I found this: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=100.f0840d00e23d4d4f.014%40telus.net
and this: http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=000.20300500a04d024f.007%40telus.net
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I never did get that thing to work with WPA2. My brother has the T43 now, and I forgot all about trying the new supplicant and XWLAN with it, when I visited about a month ago. I don't think his router will do WPA2 anyway.
Hopefully, the Multimac project will pick up that device and fix the problems, eventually. Meanwhile, it seems that one is limited to WPA, unless the new supplicant, and/or XWLAN, fixes the problem.
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I'm able to connect to a WPA2 access point with the latest GenMac and wpa_supplicant on an IBM ThinkPad A31 with Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG network card installed. There are lot of problems with all these stuff tho.
Also please take in mind that WPA gives you near to zero security.
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