FC9 NetworkManager & WPA [SOLVED!]

[Devon Harding]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Devon Harding <devonharding at gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>wrote:
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>> On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 12:00 -0400, Devon Harding wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > 2008/8/23 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
>> >         On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:26:06 Devon Harding wrote:
>> >         > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Brian Powell
>> >         <bpowell01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >         > > Devon,
>> >         > >
>> >         > > Make sure you have the wpa_supplicant package installed.
>> >         > >
>> >         >
>> >
>> >         > The wpa_supplicant package is installed (and the update).
>> >          When I select my
>> >         > wireless from the drop down list, it still asks for a WEP
>> >         key instead of a
>> >         > WPA key.
>> >         >
>> >         > Do I need the wpa_supplicant_gui package too?
>> >         >
>> >
>> >         I see the same behaviour on my EeePC.  It does no harm, but
>> >         it's b******
>> >         annoying.  (I presume that, like me, you can use the drop-down
>> >         arrow to
>> >         select WPA then manually give it the passphrase?)
>> >
>> >         Anne
>> >
>> >
>> > The thing is, WPA is not one of the choices.  I only have the
>> > following:
>> >
>> > WEP 128-bit Passphrase
>> > WEP 40/128-bit Hexadecimal
>> > WEP 40/128-bit ASCII
>> > LEAP
>> > Dynamic WEP (802.1x)
>> Left click on the applet and chose connect to other netwok. There you
>> should get a choice to use WPA.
>> >
>> --
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>
> When I do that, it doesn't connect to the network.  I've been reading and
> it seems that the firmware may be an issue:
>
> http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/
>

That was it!!!  I ran the command 'prism2_srec -v -f eth1 pk010101.hex
SF010802.HEX', rebooted and it immidiatly ask me to connect to my network
via WPA Personal.

Thanks all!

-Devon
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