<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Mike McMullin <<a href="mailto:mwmcmlln@mnsi.net">mwmcmlln@mnsi.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> 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.