How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 15:10:12 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 06:44 -0800, Tom London wrote:
> - Device: eth1 ----------------------------------------------------------------
>   NM Path:           /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1
>   Type:              802.11 Wireless
>   Active:            no
>   HW Address:        00:13:CE:BE:8E:B0
> 
>   Capabilities:
>     Supported:       yes
> 
>   Wireless Settings
>     Scanning:        yes
>     WEP Encryption:  yes
> 

The card doesn't support WPA, probably just for that one small patch.

> nm-applet shows the 'networkworks', but selecting a WPA one borks. 
> Appears that nm-applet only (really) knows about WEP (ie. none of the
> pull-downs have WPA entries).

Yes, it won't show options that the card (or access point) don't
support.

Dan




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