How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 18:33:07 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 17:15 +0000, Anne Wilson wrote:
> 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?

That is correct, but it only requires one small non-invasive driver
patch to make WPA available.  This patch should make FC5 final, so
you'll be fine once FC5 comes out.

Dan




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