Some months ago i built a HTPC in a shiny case of spare components I had around the apartment. For networking I used the standard ethernet and had a bunch of ugly cables on my floor. After redecorating a bit i finally managed to go wireless everywhere except on the HTPC and so I needed to fix this.
I bought two cheap Linksys WUSB54GC for about 15 dollars each and they worked great with windows, Mac OS X and FreeBSD. Now it was up to Linux to get the challenge.
My HTPC runs Ubuntu 7.04 with standard settings and a mythtv slapped on top. Nonthing fancy, its functional.
The RT73 driver that is included in the standard kernel for Ubuntu does not support WPA2(!).
So I had to google. The answers all pointed to the CVS version of the RT73 module to get it working.
So i downloaded it. Compiled and installed. A quick rmmod on and modprobe on the module brought the interface back up with the new shiny driver.
As for configuration i edited /etc/network/interfaces and added:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
pre-up ifconfig wlan0 up
pre-up iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
pre-up iwconfig wlan0 essid YOURSSID
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set AuthMode=WPA2PSK
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set WPAPSK=YOURKEY
pre-up iwpriv wlan0 set EncrypType=AES
And voila the sucker now works even when rebooting. No more stinking cables on the floor. Sussis is gonna be thrilled when she gets home from Stockholm.
Sunday, August 12, 2007
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