Nothing whatsoever happens (it fails without any message to stderr) with the plaintext in the config file (either as-is or as "s:xxxxxxx") with the full 64-digit Hex key it specifically complains about the key not being 8.63 characters (implying that it's expecting the plaintext?). Wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -ieth1 -c/etc/wireless/ Everything fine up until I try using wpa_supplicant. ifconfig sees the card as eth1 I manually inserted bcm43xx in nf anyway, just in case I'm able to scan, and see the network, pick up the MAC address for the access point, etc. So then I tried following the VectorLinux wireless HowTo. At that point I gave up, although I did find today an article on that does suggest a patch to XP might improve matters - but it's also possible that XP has already applied that patch in its regular updates, since it claims to be able to do WPA2 anyway. When I looked at the saved key associated with the connection it appeared to have truncated the 64-character Hex key, or just saved something else (not enough characters in the field). In each case XP tried to connect, and then silently failed. I tried putting in as Key the plaintext "s:plaintext" and the whole encypted key. at 4 bits each, that looks like 256 bits rather than 128. Trying to follow this - even though the version of the Airport Utility is different - we looked for the Equivalent Password on the iMac and found the 10-character plain text version (which I already knew) listed as "WPA Password" and, as PSK, a string of 64 Hex digits. I am running VectorLinux 5.8 SoHo dual-boot with Windows XP Home Edition (SP2), and the wireless network card is an Asus WL-138G v2 with Broadcomm chipset.Īs far as Windows is concerned, I found a step-by-step here. WPA and WPA2 clients can connect using WPA-PSK with TKIP. Set up is Airport Extreme with 802.11n (set for 802.11b/g compatible) adminstration is done using Airport Utility Version 7.0 running on Mac OS X Tiger. Both Windows and Linux are able to see the router and the network: the problem seems to be with encryption. (Also hurrah - better Mr Jobs than Mr Gates, any day.) But I run Linux - and XP when I absolutely have to - and I can't get my machine to talk to her router. in the hope that someone, somewhere can tell me (a) that this is, in fact, possible, and (b) how to do it. OK: X-posting massively because it's a cross-platform problem.
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