Somebody in the thread at some point said: > wpa_supppicant, but it does not work with this wireless card! I > understand that rt2x00 is under heavy development now. However the > rt73 driver does support WPA encryption natively so it should in > principle be possible to get a connection to a WPA encrypted AP with a > little extra work. Ah take care, there is an ugly situation with the current kernels and rt2571-based devices. Both the correct rt73usb driver and the bogus rt2500usb driver are loaded, and it doesn't work by default since the wrong driver gets in first. Add this to /etc/modprobe.conf install rt2500usb /bin/true and reboot and retry the rt73usb situation (from the version supplied with the Fedora kernel if you have been cooking your own). I had good luck with this and wpa_supplicant in the last two weeks. > Has anyone managed to achieve this ? If so how? Are there details on a > web page somewhere? > > b) Laptop 3 is a Samsung Q35 running FC6 and has an IPW3945 wireless > card in it. With the recent kernels and the iwl3945 driver it has been > possible to get this driver working and connected with a stable WEP > encrypted link to the AP. > In this machine the FC6 version of wpa_supplicant is 0.4.9-1 and seems > not to support the iwl3945 driver yet! It should work fine, I have one of these laptops, on F7 admittedly. Use -Dwext on wpa_supplicant. Why not grab the F7 wpa_supplicant RPM by hand and see what kind of dependencies it would need if you installed it on the FC6 system. -Andy
