[dundee] eee bygum

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man alive! any more eee wireless driver talk tonight and my head might
explode!

(myeee+airconnect*!*=best of friends)...(yet)

Lack of PEAP support in the driver supplied apparently.

Lee was having similar difficulties with an atheros card of his and took a
look at my eeePC today:

"I've done it!"
> you fixed it??
"No, but look! now you get the exact same error as me!"
>...... thanks.

;p

On Jan 24, 2008 10:16 PM, jamie <linux at riach.eu> wrote:

> Hi all, been looking at hooking the Asus EEE to a WPA enterprise secured
> network. (I don't have one but was asked and looked into it --cause i
> might). There are two problems --According to eeeuser
> wpa_supplicant.conf is rewritten every restart by the GUI wireless
> handler. This would need disabled or rewritten to suit our needs or in
> hacker fashion by passed by scripting a program to re-write the file
> post boot to what we need.
> The wifi chipset in use is the bang up to date AR5007EF lovely except
> the usual delay in getting out drivers -- currently supported by latest
> madwifi driver but the latest AR5K(opensource) isn't yet advised. Posts
> indicate Asus has modified its code for this driver but others report
> working links after reflashing with UBUNTU and FEDORA so i suspect it is
> just a pre-release image that worked and the latest driver is OK.
> Another 'Feature' wpa enterprise is present but as mentioned above the
> wpa_sup.conf file needs re-writ every start. Another convenience ASUS
> provided was the lack of MSCHAPV2 second level authentication compiled
> into wpa_supplicant. This is an old version (circa2005) and may not have
> it as an option anyway, Cvs 5.5/5.6 had MSCHAP in their later guises but
> very flaky. it would probably advisable to compile a new wpa_supplicant
> v 6.X.
>
>
> Except ASUS has not provided a complete set of kernel headers much less
> kernel sources. This would have to be attempted using standard ones and
> crossed fingers? Apparently there are a few different minor kernel
> versions in use which may make things interesting.
>
> Hope this of use to someone with small parts. Sorry its a bit dry but
> hey ho
>
> The regex presentation could inform the basis of a shell script to
> rewrite wpa_supplicant.conf after start up so this will make the next
> meeting more interesting.
>
>
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