FC5 issue with ndiswrapper

[Roger Grosswiler]

Am Donnerstag, den 23.03.2006, 20:20 -0500 schrieb Michael Wiktowy:
> 
> 
> On 3/23/06, Josh Coffman <josh_coffman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>         
>         Has anyone gotten NetworkManager or the network gui
>         applet to recognize wlan0 usin ndiswrapper?
>         
>         I can manage wlan0 fine in cli, but not the nice gui
>         tools. So I think its not an ndiswrapper of
>         wireless-tools problem.
> 
> I was trying to use the madwifi package with my NetGear 511T and
> NetworkManager acted quite squirrelly.  It works well enough with
> Ubuntu Breezy but not WPA. I was hoping that FC5 would bring me joy
> but not quite. I got to the point where NM would unreliably list the
> available APs but wouldn't connect to any of them (including
> unencrypted SSIDs) but that could have been signal strength issues.
> There was one bit of weirdness in that both a wlan0 and an ath0 was
> created when I tried to start just one.
> 
> Is NM supposed to have WPA support built-in yet? I know that is on the
> roadmap but I don't know if it made it into FC5. I tried to start the
> wpa_supplicant service via system-config-services but it wouldn't run.
> So I ran it as a daemon with all the commandline switches in place but
> couldn't tell if it was working properly. There was no error output bu
> no success either and no GUI to set the key ... just iwconfig. :[
> 
> 
> 
> /Mike
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i run NetworkManager with ndiswrapper without problem. Yes, it supports
WPA. There is no need to start wpa_supplicant manually. Just do "service
NetworkManager start" and "service NetworkManagerDispatcher start" you
will get the icon then. Double click it and add a new connection. you
will then also be asked for encryption and all the rest.

HTH
Roger