Am Donnerstag, den 23.03.2006, 20:20 -0500 schrieb Michael Wiktowy: > > > On 3/23/06, Josh Coffman <josh_coffman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Has anyone gotten NetworkManager or the network gui > applet to recognize wlan0 usin ndiswrapper? > > I can manage wlan0 fine in cli, but not the nice gui > tools. So I think its not an ndiswrapper of > wireless-tools problem. > > I was trying to use the madwifi package with my NetGear 511T and > NetworkManager acted quite squirrelly. It works well enough with > Ubuntu Breezy but not WPA. I was hoping that FC5 would bring me joy > but not quite. I got to the point where NM would unreliably list the > available APs but wouldn't connect to any of them (including > unencrypted SSIDs) but that could have been signal strength issues. > There was one bit of weirdness in that both a wlan0 and an ath0 was > created when I tried to start just one. > > Is NM supposed to have WPA support built-in yet? I know that is on the > roadmap but I don't know if it made it into FC5. I tried to start the > wpa_supplicant service via system-config-services but it wouldn't run. > So I ran it as a daemon with all the commandline switches in place but > couldn't tell if it was working properly. There was no error output bu > no success either and no GUI to set the key ... just iwconfig. :[ > > > > /Mike > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list i run NetworkManager with ndiswrapper without problem. Yes, it supports WPA. There is no need to start wpa_supplicant manually. Just do "service NetworkManager start" and "service NetworkManagerDispatcher start" you will get the icon then. Double click it and add a new connection. you will then also be asked for encryption and all the rest. HTH Roger -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
