Networking :: Wireless Networking with WPA Support

okay, I can say that it works even with WPA2 as suggested by fightie and roberts, however, I did not try to load any large files.

Here is the script I am using to start the wireless network with WPA2. It is based on the references provided by roberts and fightie. I put two files with the drivers in the root directory of my USB memory stick, from which I am actually booting: net5211.inf and AR5211.sys. They come from the Atheros drivers for Windows.

Code Sample

#!/bin/bash
# shell script to start wireless networking with WPA2
# with DSL 3.3 and Atheros 5212 based mini-PCI card.
# May 11, 2007

# The original Atheros kernel modules need to be removed.
# They don't work with WPA/WPA2 probably due to incompatible versions.

rmmod ath_pci
rmmod ath_rate_sample
rmmod ath_hal

# Start the ndiswrapper driver using Atheros' Windows drivers.
# Print a confirmation message that the drivers are loaded.

ndiswrapper -i /cdrom/net5211.inf
ndiswrapper -l

# Insert the ndiswrapper driver in the kernel
# First remove any leftover ndiswrapper drivers.

modprobe -r ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
sleep 5

# Now start wpa_supplicant with the configuration file

wpa_supplicant -B -Dndiswrapper -i wlan0 -c /cdrom/wpa_supplicant.conf

# Obtain an IP address

pump -i wlan0

I will continue to run tests with the setup; as I said, I haven't tried loading big files yet. For general internet access and browsing it has worked so far. Thanks a lot for your helpful suggestions.

original here.