[Wylug-help] Wireless Encryption (was orinoco_cs driver for Debian)

[Dave Fisher]

On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 08:19:34PM +0000, Aaron Crane wrote:
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> wireless-tools.  You probably need to put the appropriate wireless
> options in /etc/network/interfaces; see iwconfig(8) for available ones.
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> For 2.6 kernels, it's in the standard kernel package.

Thanks Aaron.  That probably saved me from chasing a lot of
red-herrings.  My existing kernels were old roll-your-own efforts
without the orinoco drivers.

I assumed that a debian 2.6 kernel-image would have the modules, but
couldn't get I any new images to boot properly on the stinkpads that I
was using (before kernel panicking, they kept whingeing about having the
wrong root parameter -- 306 or /dev/hda6 -- which didn't make any sense
to me, since several other kernels booted fine with exactly the same
parameter).

It turned out that all the working kernels were SMP versions, and
everything was hunky dory once I installed a debian SMP kernel-image.
Could this be down to some strange IBM hardware thingy?

Anyway, man 8 iwconfig tells me a lot of what I need to know to put my
interfaces into appropriate modes and set encryption on (thanks again
Aaron), but it doesn't tell me anything about what sort of encryption I
can use (no mention of WEP, WPA, etc.) or where I get keys from in the
first place.

Can anyone give me some pointers?

Dave