On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Andy Green wrote: > Somebody in the thread at some point said: > > > so far, so good? i just want to verify that that's the right > > firmware file before going any further. i'm paranoid that way. > > :-) > > I'm sorry I don't have that device, I don't know. But it is the > case that "firmware" is a bit of a misnomer for the wireless devices > I have met, in fact this file is getting loaded into SRAM on the > device, not flash or anything. So any problems caused by the wrong > firmware should not live through a powerdown of the device. agreed. > WEP is completely unsafe though, aircrack and related tools can > crack it with relative ease. Unless you live in the wilderness WPA > is a necessity (and I use ssh tunnels for everything, including all > web traffic proxied through one, inside that in addition). i agree. but, for the moment, i'm actually going to try to get wireless working with no encryption whatsoever, just to make sure that *that's* not the problem. just trying to minimize the number of potential issues. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ========================================================================
