How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?

Anne Wilson cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk
Mon Jan 30 17:15:50 UTC 2006


On Monday 30 Jan 2006 15:10, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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, I'm not sure what you mean by 'The card doesn't support WPA'.  My 
laptop with the ipw2200 is dual-booting, and I have no problem setting 
up WPA-PSK in XP.  Do you mean that I shall not be able to when I put 
FC on that laptop?

Anne
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