Re: [Hampshire] Wireless, WPA and Prism54

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Author: Chris Aitken
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Wireless, WPA and Prism54
> I've got a prism54 card in my laptop running ubuntu edgy, and I'm fairly
> sure that wpa isn't supported (yet?) with the new prism54 driver. I just
> use 128-bit wep with mac address filtering at the access point.
>
> Having played around with wep and wpa on another machine with an atheros
> card, I was getting almost twice the connection speed using wep, so I'm
> not altogether sorry not to be using it on my lappy.


As Peter says, the Prism54 does not support WPA. You'll have more
success nailing jelly to a wall.