[gentoo-user] madwifi-ng & WPA

[Stroller]

Hi,

I've just purchased an Atheros-based wireless card that appears to be  
supported by the madwifi drivers. I emerged the latest version of  
madwifi because the VAP mode looks cool. ("Virtual AP (VAP) mode,  
which allows the operation of multiple concurrent (virtual) access  
points, and concurrent running in both AP and station mode" <http:// 
madwifi.org/wiki/ngFeatures>)

I've used WEP to date, so this isn't urgent, but I thought I'd try in  
order to try using the card in WPA mode; at the end of `emerge wpa- 
supplicant` the following einfo is given:

* To use wpa_supplicant-0.4.7 you must create the configuration file
* /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
*
* An example configuration file has been installed as
* /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf.example
*
* Please notice that madwifi support was removed in this version
* of the ebuild. It will return once madwifi is stable again.

Does anyone know a workaround for using madwifi-ng with WPA, please?

$ eix -I wpa_supplicant -o madwifi --format "\t<category>/<name> 
\tversion <installedversions> installed"
         net-wireless/madwifi-driver     version 0.1420.20060201  
installed
         net-wireless/madwifi-tools      version 0.1420.20060201  
installed
         net-wireless/wpa_supplicant     version 0.4.7 installed

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Stroller.
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