How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 23:12 +1100, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 15:57 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 20:37 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > read about WPA-support with NetworkManager. How can i get this? I have
> > > already wpa_suuplicant in use...
> > 
> > First you need a card with WEXT-compliant WPA support.  That means using
> > the 'wext' driver of wpa_supplicant.  Second, even if that works, the
> > card's driver needs to set the enc_capa field for it's iw_range
> > structure, which at least ipw does right now.  The other drivers
> > in-kernel don't actually support WPA yet.
> 
> So if I've got a ipw2200 card how do I do WPA?
> 

What does /usr/bin/nm-tool say for your card?  It doesn't look like the
necessary (small) patch is in Linus' tree, nor in jgarzik's netdev-2.6
tree.  I know I saw somebody post the patch to netdev though, so I'll
make sure it gets where it needs to go.

Dan