[brlug-general] Help with PEAP, TKIP, WPA and wpa_supplicant

[willhill]

LSU is about to roll out a new wireless encryption scheme with "limited 
support" for "unix."

http://grok.lsu.edu/Article.aspx?articleId=1464

http://appl003.lsu.edu/itsweb/securityweb.nsf/$Content/Wireless+Network+Usage?OpenDocument

The schemes are,  "Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) for 
authentication and Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) with Temporal Key Integrity 
Protocol (TKIP) for encryption."  wpa_supplicant and x_supplicant are the 
recommended applications to make this work, but the hardware list looks tiny 
and most of them were shown as not working with Fedora in a testing chart I 
saw.  

Does anyone have experience with this?  

I found this, 

http://www.fmepnet.org/debian_wpa.html

and would like to know what you think.