Suggestions for PCMCIA WiFi that supports WPA?

[Larry Sanders]

Can anyone recommend a 802.11g card that is supported with WPA out of
the box on ubuntu 8.10?

I spent way too much time trying to get my lucent card to work.
wpa_supplicant doesn't come with hermes support and the link has been
broken due to corporate acquisitions.. Google did find an old copy
which I had to modify to actually compile. And after all that, it
seems the lucent card itself doesn't have the support I need?

[Nick Anderson]

I had good luck with a netgear card recently. Cant remember the model
number though.

[nick....@gmail.com]

I've got a Linksys card at home that I use and I've never had trouble
with it. I'll take a look at the model and will report back.

-Nick

[Andrew Beals]

For me, on etch (yes, I know that debian etch !=  ubuntu 8.10, but I had similar headaches working on the same durn card),  I loaded the ACX111 ndis drivers (might have gotten away with the native non-wpa acx111 driver) and then I had to put this in /etc/network/interfaces:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
    wpa-ssid Routah
    wpa-psk ThisAintMyRealPassphraseBrah

At which point it was able to authenticate to my dd-wrt box and get on-net.  It's happily sitting in the basement, humming away to itself now. 

[Rudy, Jared]

Did you try using ndiswrapper?  It was the only way for me to ever get my old wireless pcmcia card to work in linux.

 

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/ndiswrapper/index.php?title=Main_Page

 

Here’s a link to a guy who did it on his Dell with Ubuntu 8.10.  Might be a different card but the process is the same.

 

http://www.ubuntu1501.com/2008/11/ndiswrapper-in-ubuntu-810-intrepid-ibex.html

 

 

Jared Rudy
UNIX Administrator
St. Francis Health Center
1700 SW 7th
Topeka, KS 66606
785-295-7942

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