Fedora Users — Re: FC9 NetworkManager & WPA

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:13 PM, max <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Devon Harding wrote:

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM, max <maximilianbianco@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Devon Harding wrote:

2008/8/23 Anne Wilson <cannewilson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:26:06 Devon Harding wrote:

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Brian Powell <bpowell01@xxxxxxxxx>

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)

Have you tried an older kernel? I have seen some weird stuff with

wireless on the latest but it may be something else going on there.

What kind of wireless device are you working with?

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Fortune favors the BOLD

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I tried Ubuntu (Hardy) and got the same thing. If I choose 'Connect to
other wireless network' I do see the option for WPA, but it doesn't seems
to connect to my access point.

-Devon

But what wireless card are you using? I suspect your problem may be there, its a possibility to explore anyway.

from a terminal as root:

root@localhost# lspci -v

it will produce a lot of output , look for the wireless device it should be obviously labeled

Here's the output:

00:12.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Unknown device 1169
    Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9
    Memory at e8013000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: hostap_pci
    Kernel modules: orinoco_pci, hostap_pci

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