wpa_supplicant - how?
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Thu Oct 4 16:39:46 UTC 2007
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> wpa_supppicant, but it does not work with this wireless card! I
> understand that rt2x00 is under heavy development now. However the
> rt73 driver does support WPA encryption natively so it should in
> principle be possible to get a connection to a WPA encrypted AP with a
> little extra work.
Ah take care, there is an ugly situation with the current kernels and
rt2571-based devices. Both the correct rt73usb driver and the bogus
rt2500usb driver are loaded, and it doesn't work by default since the
wrong driver gets in first. Add this to /etc/modprobe.conf
install rt2500usb /bin/true
and reboot and retry the rt73usb situation (from the version supplied
with the Fedora kernel if you have been cooking your own). I had good
luck with this and wpa_supplicant in the last two weeks.
> Has anyone managed to achieve this ? If so how? Are there details on a
> web page somewhere?
>
> b) Laptop 3 is a Samsung Q35 running FC6 and has an IPW3945 wireless
> card in it. With the recent kernels and the iwl3945 driver it has been
> possible to get this driver working and connected with a stable WEP
> encrypted link to the AP.
> In this machine the FC6 version of wpa_supplicant is 0.4.9-1 and seems
> not to support the iwl3945 driver yet!
It should work fine, I have one of these laptops, on F7 admittedly. Use
-Dwext on wpa_supplicant.
Why not grab the F7 wpa_supplicant RPM by hand and see what kind of
dependencies it would need if you installed it on the FC6 system.
-Andy
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