Re: WPA on laptops running FreeBSD 5.3?

Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.3-Release on a ThinkPad T41, and
>upgraded to 5.4-stable:
>
>FreeBSD kg-jobbpc3.kg4.no 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sun Jan 30
>22:05:15 CET 2005     [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/T41
>i386
>
>This ThinkPad have an Atheros-based wireless card built-in:
>tingo@kg-jobbpc3$ dmesg | grep ath0
>ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xc0210000-0xc021ffff irq 11 at device 2.0 on
>pci2 ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
>ath0: Ethernet address: 00:05:4e:46:ba:e5
>ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps
>24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
>
>I'm using a Linksys WRT54G as an access point. Both the WRT54G and the
>T41 supports WPA, so the AP is configured with WPA-PSK.
>With "other os" this works; I connect my T41 to the AP, and it just
>works. But I don't want to use "other os" on this ThinkPad.
>
>Now, is there a way to get the T41 with FreeBSD 5.3-stable to support
>WPA?
>
>
The wpa support with other IEEE802.11 changes is present in -CURRENT.
For 5.3-stable there is no support for wpa.

Arne

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