WPA on the Zipit Z2

So, finally I was able to find some time to concentrate on the Zipit.  Some useful information that I learned is that the Zipit Z2 is using the Marvell 88W8686 802.11b/g wireless network chipset, which happens to be the same chipset found in the Apple iPhone.  Unfortunately, there isn’t any open firmware for it, so kismet won’t run on the Zipit.  However, there are working drivers so you can run wpa_supplicant to get your Zipit working with a WPA or WPA2 network.  Below is the excerpt for /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:

network={
    ssid="YourSSIDGoesHere"
    scan_ssid=1
    key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
    psk="Your very secret passphrase goes here."
}

Then you need to run wpa_supplicant:

wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

All of this information found on Douglas Henke’s website.  Click here.