On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:41 +0000, Mike C wrote: > I have been playing with wpa_supplicant - and on one Dell d610 running > up-to-date F7 I can get the wpa_supplicant running (both manual and daemon) to > get a stable working link to thw AP with the ipw2200 inbuilt wireless card. This > is using wpa_supplicant to connect using WEP encryption to the local AP. At this > point I believe that setting up a WPA network section in wpa_supplicant.conf > will likely get a working connection with WPA encryption. > > However I have also been trying two other systems which need to be tested before > thinking about switching encryption on the AP from WEP to WPA, and I will give > the current situation with each before asking a few questions on this list. > > a) Laptop 2 is an Amilo with no inbuilt wireless and it runs F7 fully up to date > with an Edimax USB wireless card. By compiling the rt73 driver myself this can > connect nicely to the WEP encrypted AP, but the rt73 driver is not supported in > wpa_supplicant version 0.5.7 in F7. There is nominally a driver in the current > kernel (rt2x00) which has rt73usb support, and is supported in the current > version of 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. > > 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! > > So I have a dilemma here - it would be nice to have all three laptops able to > make a WPA encrypted connection to the AP. However it seems that at present I > can only get one of them to potentially achieve this! Maybe the second with a > tail wind! > > So the questions are: > > 1) It may be possible to get the EDimax USB dongle to get a WPA link going but > this is not tested - has anyone else managed to achieve this in F7? If so how, > and is there a web page describing the details? > > 2) I am reluctant to move the Samsung from FC6 to F7 yet since I am not 100% > confident that the ipw3945 card will be supported in a stable way with the > iwl3945 driver in F7 (anyone done this?) but also I would like to know if there > will soon be a version of wpa_supplicant in FC6 that does work with iwl3945 - > has anyone managed to do this successfully yet? > > Is there a test version of wpa_supplicant for FC6 available that will work in > FC6 with the iwl3945 card using the iwl3945 driver in the latest FC6 kernel? > > Thanks > In addition to all these questions , why don't you use NetworkMamager. If you did you would not have to worry about configuring wpa_supplicant and if the cards are supported then WEP and various WPA's are supported, With and without LEAP or PEAP for example. -- ======================================================================= Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
