linksys wireless on Debian Testing

[Jamon Camisso]

JoeHill wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote: 
> 
>> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 12:59:14AM -0500, JoeHill wrote:
>>> I went back and looked at it again. This time I went in to the network
>>> config in the system menu, and it opened a dialogue to enter the wireless
>>> network settings, but it does not have a choice for WPA and a passphrase,
>>> only for WEP with a WEP password.
>>>
>>> Is WPA not supported, or am I still in the wrong spot for this?  
>> Well I have certainly seen a laptop at work with Debian lenny installed,
>> that just worked.  It supported WEP and WPA and WPA2 when you clicked
>> on the network manager system tray icon in gnome.
>>
>> What are you running on your system?
> 
> Debian Testing, with wpa_supplicant installed. Is it possible that it's just
> not supported by the card? I saw some argument about that when searching, but
> the output from hwinfo seemed to show support for wpa:
> 
> 2.462 2.467 2.472 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
>   WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
> 

Debian testing is now Debian Squeeze. I'm not sure what has come in from 
sid, but I'd expect testing to be a little unstable for a few months. 
Are you intending to use Squeeze or Lenny?

Jaomn
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