linksys wireless on Debian Testing

[JoeHill]

Jamon Camisso wrote: 

> 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?

I was just going to stick with Testing.

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