wpa and PRISM 2.5

Kevin Oberman oberman at es.net
Sun Nov 19 15:48:29 PST 2006


> I can't get my PRISM-card to work with wpa. It is a minipci-card included
> in my Thinkpad T30, wi driver:
> 
> wi0 at pci2:2:0:   class=0x028000 card=0x25138086 chip=0x38731260 rev=0x01 
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'Intersil Americas Inc (Was: Harris Semiconductor)'
>     device   = 'PRISM 2.5 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless Controller'
>     class    = network
> 
> I use FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE, and has a simple WPA-PSK setup on my ap.
> 
> Anyone have this working?

What is the firmware version? (It's in the dmesg.) Only newer versions of the 
firmware have any chance of supporting WPA.

Also, make sure that you have the wlan_tkip module loaded if you expect to use 
TKIP.
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