Re: Wireless USB devices in Knoppix 3.4

Adam York wrote:

>Fabian,
>
>I wanted to touch base with you on the wireless usb/prism2 issue.  I got
>my wusb12 device working with the prism2_usb driver on the latest Knoppix
>release.  What sort of problems were you having with yours?  Doing the
>following enabled me to get it working:
>
>wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_ifstate ifstate=enable
>wlanctl-ng wlan0 lnxreq_autojoin ssid=myssid authtype=opensystem
>ifup wlan0
>pump -i wlan0
>
>I have not been able to get it working with WEP.  Maybe I'm just haven't
>made the proper adjustments to /etc/wlan/wlancfg-DEFAULT but so far it
>only works when I turn off wep.  This is not too good for securing
>things.  I can of course limit authentication to certain mac address, but
>having just gotten Kismet working with my Orinoco pcmcia card I now see
>how easy it is to discover what mac addresses being used on my network.
>
>Take care,
>
>Adam
>
>
>  
>
it would be exceedingly useful to disclose where you gleamed this
infomation from ?

stephen