linksys wireless on Debian Testing

[Thomas Milne]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Jamon Camisso
<jamon.camisso-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> 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?

btw, tbrucemilne = joehill

Actually, now that I check it again, even though I used a Debian
Testing net install ISO, the sources.list shows this system as Lenny.

> Jaomn

huh? ;)

Hey, anyone know how to tell gmail to use a shorter line wrap?
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