wireless driver+encryption on wicd

[Nathan Bahn]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:

>
>  I'm trying to connect my laptop to my wireless base station using
> WICD, but cannot get a connect.
>  The base is using WPA Personal, WPA Algorithm: TKIP
>  The ESSID shows up but I cannot get a connection, in fact several
> secure networks show up.
>  The laptop has an Atheros AR2413 on the pci bus, and the kernel module
> in use is: ATH5K, Ubuntu9.04 with 2.6.28-15-generic.  I had been using
> the mad-wifi driver under openSuSE11.1.
>
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M.M.--

You may want to consider or research WPA2 (AES) since, as I understand it,
WPA1 (TKIP/AES) can be partially cracked -- ESPECIALLY if you use a weak
password.  Short of enterprise-level security (802.1x) use  WPA2 (AES -- *
NOT* TKIP, AES is stronger than TKIP) since it has the best security
available -- provided that you don't use a weak password, that is!
I haven't yet figured out enterprise-level security, so I use WPA2 (AES)
with a -- relatively -- strong password.

--N.B.
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