[nzlug] Acer Aspire, Hardy, and wireless

[simon]

On Sun, 2008-06-15 at 00:01 +1200, Robin Sheat wrote:
> On Sat, June 14, 2008 09:20, Nick Rout wrote:
> > ath driver works here with WPA, is there a reason you are preferring
> > not to use the open source driver?
It doesn't work... oh, you noticed ;)

> Ah, I found that yes, there is a reason for not using it: it doesn't work
> with this chipset (and, before someone mentions it, my parents aren't up
> for recompiling the madwifi driver whenever a kernel update comes out).
> 
AFAIK: The driver does not support WPA2 - either madwifi or using the
windows driver with ndiswrapper - which suggests that Windows won't wpa2
either. Not tested with anything else - which reminds me...

> Going to make do without encryption for now, and will keep an eye open for
> an updated driver to come into hardy at some stage.

Yeah - just protect the hosts and have fun with freeloaders.