wpa_supplicant & bcm43xx working, NetworkManager not

Patrick fedora-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Jun 29 14:44:18 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 09:17 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-06-29 at 02:34 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Just a quick report that I have succeed in getting a wifi link from my
> > Acer laptop with a Broadcom BCM4318 chip active to a SpeedTouch 716
> > using WPA-PSK with AES. Unfortunately not with NetworkManager. Whatever
> > I do, if NetworkManager is involved things stop working and the door
> > handles fall off, except for LAN cable connections which work fine.
> > 
> This is not an answer to the question, but maybe someone can tell me
> where from do you get wpa_supplicant. I download the source code and it
> does not compile. The list that discusses it can't be subscribed to so I
> am lost and frustrated.

$ sudo yum install wpa_supplicant*

Regards,
Patrick




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