PCI pre-n WPA card that just works?

[kjjjjshab]

Can anyone recommend a PCI pre-n card that will connect to a WPA2 secured network without using the gnome network app, or wicd? A link to the newegg page would be great.

Thanks.

In related news, my "office" is being turned into my boy's room!
(eta November)

So struggling with my D-Link 542 for fun has now turned into an actual need for wireless...

[kevinc]

Re: PCI pre-n WPA card that just works?

Interesting, I don't think its the PCI card, but rather the driver you use, such as wicd or nm that makes the difference.

I have a 2006 notebook with intel 3945 wireless card - quite common.
Using Sidux 2009.2 and Ceni it connects to my linksys wireless WPA2 instantly,
using Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty and wicd - it asks me to install encryption. Looking at wicd I can't find this anywhere.

Most modern cards support WPA2 but the question in Kubuntu is finding the network manager frontend that wil work with it.

EDIT: This post claims that wicd and WPA2 work, probably with the addition of another card driver
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3104150.0

There are several other posts on the topic but not clear that it does work, obviously others are having the same problem.

[kjjjjshab]

Re: PCI pre-n WPA card that just works?

So then no card will work with kubuntu "out of the box" with WPA2?

It was my impression that ath9k driver was included with the JJ kernel and my card should work, but it doesn't with WPA2 (works just fine with open connections). I am looking for something similar (that works obviously). There must be something.

And since I can't seem to get wicd or nm-applet to work either with a lot of time spent on it, that isn't a solution for my current hardware.

[kevinc]

Re: PCI pre-n WPA card that just works?

Found a few more posts suggesting that Atheros ath5k may be blacklisted and removing it solves the problem.
Are you using the ath5k or ath9k? Either way, it may be worth checking to see that it's not blacklisted.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ection-724443/

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3104787.0

but is it disappointing to see many unanswered posts to do with getting wireless working.

[tnorris]

Re: PCI pre-n WPA card that just works?

Can anyone recommend a PCI pre-n card that will connect to a WPA2 secured network without using the gnome network app, or wicd? A link to the newegg page would be great.

Thanks.

In related news, my "office" is being turned into my boy's room!
(eta November)

So struggling with my D-Link 542 for fun has now turned into an actual need for wireless...

I use this USB adapter with Ubuntu (should work with Kubuntu) as well:
http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/products/WUSB600N

I don't use NM or WICD on the laptop that uses that adapter. I setup the interfaces file like:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto ra0
iface ra0 inet static
address 192.168.1.5
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
wpa-driver wext
wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

and the wpa_supplicant file like:

network={
    pairwise=CCMP
    group=CCMP
    ssid="xxx"
    proto=WPA2
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    psk=<long key>
}

I don't use NM in this case because I want the connection to be established during boot rather than when I login.

Is this what you mean?

[kjjjjshab]

Re: PCI pre-n WPA card that just works?

...
and the wpa_supplicant file like:

network={
    pairwise=CCMP
    group=CCMP
    ssid="xxx"
    proto=WPA2
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    psk=<long key>
}

By <long key> do you mean the output of

wpa_passphrase <essid> <password>

?