wireless driver+encryption on wicd

[Mike McMullin]

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 16:54 -0400, Nathan Bahn wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net>
> wrote:
>         
>          I'm trying to connect my laptop to my wireless base station
>         using
>         WICD, but cannot get a connect.
>          The base is using WPA Personal, WPA Algorithm: TKIP
>          The ESSID shows up but I cannot get a connection, in fact
>         several
>         secure networks show up.
>          The laptop has an Atheros AR2413 on the pci bus, and the
>         kernel module
>         in use is: ATH5K, Ubuntu9.04 with 2.6.28-15-generic.  I had
>         been using
>         the mad-wifi driver under openSuSE11.1.
>         
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> 
> M.M.--
> 
> You may want to consider or research WPA2 (AES) since, as I understand
> it, WPA1 (TKIP/AES) can be partially cracked -- ESPECIALLY if you use
> a weak password.  Short of enterprise-level security (802.1x) use
> WPA2 (AES -- NOT TKIP, AES is stronger than TKIP) since it has the
> best security available -- provided that you don't use a weak
> password, that is!
> I haven't yet figured out enterprise-level security, so I use WPA2
> (AES) with a -- relatively -- strong password.

  I just checked the router and it supports WPA Personal/Enterprise,
WPA2 Personal/Enterprise, Radius and WEP.  Which means I ought to dig
out the info and see if XP-Home supports more than WPA.