UPDATE: I’ve gone off the idea. I don’t roam, I don’t want all the family to have to know the WPA passphrase to use their laptop account, and I like wmii , where applets don’t really make any sense. I prefer the system-wide way of doing WPA myself. Here’s the Ubuntu Dapper (or better) ‘WPA [...]
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wpa for freebsd
Despite our ups and downs, for me there’s still only one choice for a server OS . Luckily, FreeBSD 6.x now has WPA supplicant in the base, along with ipi/ipw (Centrino 802.11b/g support), and word is the 5.x wrinkles are ironed out. So I thought I’d do a BSD version of the WPA howto I [...]
fun with wpa_supplicant
Here’s how I got an 11Mbit Centrino (ipw2100) to work with WPA2. This should apply to 54Mbit cards too (e.g. for Atheros, use ‘madwifi’ for the driver and ‘ath0’ for the interface). before you read on If you’re on Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04) or better, network manager is now in the base and can handle WPA [...]
