What's the chipset in this D-Link USB device

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Feb 17 01:02:02 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 16:43 -0800, JD wrote:
> I found is that this driver does not seem to mesh
> with the linux wpa_supplicant client, so it ends up
> associating with the AP with OPEN (i.e un-encrypted) mode.
> Which is very strange because my AP is configured with
> WPA2-PSK and AES encryption. So, I have no idea how this
> wireless dongle can associate with the AP.
> However, if I leave it be for about 30 minutes or more, it finally
> changes the association from OPEN to WPA2_PSK with encryption.

If your AP isn't set up to, also, allow unencrypted connections, then
I'd suspect you were connecting to a neighbour's AP.

If you set an AP up to use encryption, then it really ought to *only*
allow encrypted connections.

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