6 Feb
2006
6 Feb
'06
7:06 a.m.
Hi,
On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 03:40:22AM -0800, Michel Maria-Sube wrote:
I'm using suse10.0 on my laptop an connect on
web using centrino chip, so
by using command iwconfig; this works nicely except if I use key for
encryption.
Does I need a specific package to provide authentification mechanism? Or Is
there something to do in the FireWall configuration? Actually allowed
services are DNS and DHCP servers but also IPSec, HTTP, HTTPS and SSH....
I guess you didn't receive any answers so far because your question is
not entirely clear.
If I understood correctly, you want to simply use your Wireless LAN with
encryption? The question then is, which type of encryption - WEP or WAP?
I don't have any experience myself for WAP, but I'd guess configuration-
wise, it shouldn't be that different from WEP, if it is at all supported
by your WLAN-card's driver. AFAIK, some cards don't support WAP yet.
In the case of WEP, you just tell your interface's driver the ESSID and
WEP-key you want to use ("iwconfig wlan0 essid whatever" for the ESSID
and "iwconfig wlan0 key xxxxx..." for the WEP key) and then you should
"see" the access point's MAC address when looking at the output of
iwconfig wlan0 (btw, adapt to your interface name of course). At this
point, you can configure the IP part.
For WEP at least, there's nothing whatsoever to be done with firewalling,
this is all below the IP layer.
Greetings & hth, Eric