[mdlug] WiFi -Woes(?) or Broadcom is 'the' lame

[Michael Newman]

Why not leave the network open and filter MAC addresses. That would be  
more secure than wpa2 and should allow you to connect freely since the  
protection is all in the router. With the linksys router it is pretty  
basic to set up. Also if you leave things open make sure you change  
the ipaddress and password on the local router. In college people  
would change ssids and passwords just for fun on whatever routers were  
found open.

On Nov 29, 2007, at 5:40 PM, "Robert Adkins" <radkins at impelind.com>  
wrote:

>>>
>>>        Nobody got anything on this?
>>
>> New 1.50 version of NDISwrapper:
>> http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
>>
>> What distro?  Ubuntu Gutsy bug:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/
>> +bug/124159
>>
>
>    I use OpenSuSe 10.3.
>
>    Ubuntu is just the latest Linux community darling. Since I started
> using SuSe, I've always found it to be much more complete,  
> especially in
> regards to laptop support.
>
>    I also enjoy the fact that when you update the kernel, the OpenSuSe
> Yast2 system is smart enough to update all other software that it  
> installed
> which has to have kernel specific modules for it. For example, the  
> Nvidia
> drivers, when you update the Kernel, it actually rebuilds the Nvidia  
> Kernel
> interface at the same time so when you reboot, you are presented  
> with a GUI
> again.
>
>    I've heard that Ubuntu lacks that. A guy in a class I am taking
> asked me why his X Windows was flashing at him and continually  
> crashing. I
> remembered, from seeing that often enough, that he must have been  
> using the
> Nvidia driver and recently updated his Kernel. He said yes on both  
> counts.
> So, I explained to him how to manually fix it.
>
>    Might already be using the latest NDIS, although I am beginning to
> suspect that the version of the wireless drivers I am using could be  
> out of
> date and thus not capable of handling the WPA calls that the  
> wpa_supplicant
> is asking it to handle.
>
>    -Rob
>
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