Pleh

After much searching, I found the secret to getting my Thinkpad T40 (with ipw2100 1.1.3 wireless driver) working with WPA2. My parents’ wireless access point is a Linksys WRT54G (ver 4), running the latest Linksys firmware. They’ve got it configured for WPA2 Personal wireless encryption. It was very easy to set up Lisa’s OS X 10.4 mactop (much easier than I remember configuring it for WEP on OS X 10.1), but I spent over a day trying to get wpa_supplicant (0.4.7) working. The secret was not using the ipw driver in wpa_supplicant, but using the generic wext driver. I was getting a lot of “Operation Not Supported” messages in the debug output of wpa_supplicant, but once I changed from the ipw driver to wext, everything worked just fine. I was happy, to say the least. Over 24 hours without access! /me shivers. (Well, without access on my laptop. Good thing I had other computers with which to get online or I wouldn’ t even be able to sit here and type as my head would have exploded.)