Archive for the 'Wireless' Category

Getting the MAC address of the WiFi interface on Symbian

0 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 10th, 2008 in Symbian, Wireless

You can get the MAC address of the WiFi interface on a Symbian phone by typing *#622099526# (which is the same as typing *#mac0wlan#).

¿Qué tarjeta Wi-Fi me compro?

4 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana September 1st, 2006 in Wireless

Interesante artículo que describe las diferentes variantes de 802.11 y qué factores son interesantes considerar a la hora de adquirir una tarjeta inalámbrica.
En mi caso, me gustaría comentar que uno de los chipsets con mejor soporte para GNU/Linux es el Atheros. Los nuevos MacBook Pro de Apple incorporan este un chipset Atheros con soporte de [...]

Configuring WPA2 Enterprise with EAP-TLS in Mac OS X and Linux

2 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana January 29th, 2006 in FreeBSD, Linux, Mac OS X, Networking, Security, Wireless

Setting up the CA
Follow the steps on setting up a Certificate Authority (CA) using OpenSSL.
Issuing the client certificate and private key
Once the CA has been configured, we will generate a private key and an unsigned public key digital certificate.
# openssl req -new -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 \
-keyout sslkey.pem -out unsigned.pem
The unsigned public key digital certificate, [...]

WPA Enterprise

3 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana November 1st, 2005 in Networking, RADIUS, Security, Wireless

This document explains how to set up WPA/WPA2 Enterprise using EAP-TTLS (with PAP) as the authentication mechanism.
Introduction
The original IEEE 802.11 standard defined two basic security mechanisms:

Open System Authentication, which offers no security at all since any Wireless client can associate with a Wireless Access Point configured in such a way.
Open System Authentication can be useful [...]

WPA-PSK with WPA2 and SUSE Linux

3 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 28th, 2005 in Security, Wireless

SUSE Linux 10.0 Beta3 has native support for Wireless network interfaces using open authentication mode, shared-keys (like WEP), pre-shared keys (PSK) and extensible authentication (EAP).
Each network interface is configured using a plain-text file located in /etc/sysconfig/network. The configuration file usually matchs the following patterns:

ifcfg-wlan-bus–
ifcfg-wlan-

The first naming convention is used when SUSE Linux is unable to [...]

SMC 2835W V3 and SMC 2802W V2

13 Comments Published by Felipe Alfaro Solana August 19th, 2005 in Hardware, Linux, Wireless

Yesterday I bought a SMC EzConnect 54g Wireless CardBus adapter for my Linux laptop. There are, at least, two different and incompatible versions of this card. The SMC 2835W V2 uses the Intersil 3890 Prism54 chipset, which is supported natively by Linux Prism54 driver. The SMC 2835W V3, which is the one I bought, isn’t. [...]