WPA problem

[Wafa Hakim]

Matt Treml wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to switch my home network from WEP to WPA (for improved security).
> However, when carrying out some testing usign Breezy and wpa_supplicant, I
> found that my laptop would totally lock up each time the supplicant
> attached to the network. Has anyone else experienced this.
>
> I'm running kernel 2.6.12-10-686, using an Intel Centrino vireless NIC
> (ipw) and wpa_supplicant 0.4.5-ubuntu1.
>
> Thanks.


Big question -- are you using Ndiswrapper, & if yes, what version? If yes, 
then wpa_supplicant doesn't work with any version less than 1.4 (I think), & 
the one provided by default with Kubuntu in the apt repositories is much 
lower; 1.1 I think.

Wafa.

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