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C400 with Feisty; no WPA option

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#1

Anyone know how to get WPA working on Feisty with a C400. Wireless network works great without encryption, but would like to get WPA working.

Thanks in advance

#2

C400/C500 have add-on WiFi cards. Please state, which model of WiFi card is installed. Command lspci should give you lines like that:

02:03.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)

please post your output.

#3

I will post the output when l get back home. I belive it is a Dell Truemobile 1150 which l understand is a rebranded orinoco card.

#4

ok l have the following

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (Rev 04) 00:02.0 VGA Compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC (Chipset Graphics Controller) (rev 04) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82830 CGC (Chipset Graphics Controller) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42) 00:1f.0 ISA Bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE Interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 02) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02) 02:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)

i guess 02:01 or 02:03 is the wi-fi card...?

#5

No, 02:01 and 02:03 are controllers of PCMCIA slot. Strange - I don't see any WiFi cards over there... Is your card PCMCIA or miniPCI?

#6
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#8

Not every wireless chipset supports WPA. You can find out with:``` sudo iwlist eth1 key

eth1      2 key sizes : 40, 104bits
          4 keys available :
                [1]: 096C-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-FE (104 bits)
                [2]: off
                [3]: off
                [4]: off
          Current Transmit Key: [1]
          Security mode:restricted
          Authentication capabilities :
                WPA
                WPA2
                CIPHER TKIP
                CIPHER CCMP
          Current key_mgmt:0xBF828768
          Current cipher_pairwise:0xBF828768
          Current cipher_group:0xBF828768
#9

when l had winxp on the c400, if l used the dell driver it only supported wep, but if l used the orinico driver l could get wpa working

#10

I *might* suggest ndiswrapper. This solved my problems with RT2500 card denying co-operaion with high-level configuration tools. But still - as the card looks like miniPCI, it must be visible in lspci. As it is not, something wrong is happening...