Wpa_supplicant in /etc/network/interfaces and Karmic Koala 9.10

Posted by Berry van der Linden in AR242x, Kubuntu, Network on Oct 31st, 2009 | 0 comments

Most of you know that Karmic Koala 9.10 released on the 29th October.  I noticed during my test run with Alpha’s and Beta’s of Karmic that my use of wpa_supplicant as described in this article didn’t work any more.

The lines in /etc/network/interfaces have changed from:

wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa-driver wext

to:

pre-up wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B
post-down killall -q wpa_supplicant

Also if you where using :

wpa_supplicant -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

then this now has to be changed to:

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How To Get The Netgear WN311T To Work

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Featured, Kubuntu, Network on Nov 26th, 2008 | 22 comments

Unfortunately there is no Linux driver for this PCI wireless adapter.  Believe me I have searched.  The Marvell driver for the TopDog is said to work, but under Intrepid I couldn’t get it to work.

The Chipset

The chipset in this adapter is the following:

lspci -nn | grep Marvell

Result:

01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88W8361 [TopDog] 802.11n Wireless (rev 03)
Subsystem: Netgear Device 7e00
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
Memory at fdec0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Memory at fdee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [access denied]

To use this adapter we need to use ndiswrapper and the Windows driver.

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Wireless with wpasupplicant easier then you think

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Kubuntu on Aug 29th, 2008 | 13 comments

Revised on: 11-16-2008 Changed wpa-driver to wext. Now also working with Kubuntu 8.10 i686 kernel 2.6.27-7-generic

Revised on: 09-01-2008 Now working with Kubuntu 8.04.1 i686 kernel 2.6.24-19-generic and Kubuntu 8.04 x86-64 kernel 2.6.24-19-generic.

Why use wpasupplicant? KNetworkManager works just fine. Yes KNetworkManager is fine but the pass phrase is stored in Kwallet and this means every time you want the network to connect you will have to put in your Kwallet password. Also if you for some reason need wireless to be up without starting the desktop environment you will need wpasupplicant because you will not be able to open up Kwallet in a terminal environment. Wpasupplicant will give you wireless all the time without having to use Kwallet.

As always the methods used here are tested by me and working on my boxes(we have 3 boxes with wireless through wpasupplicant).

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