Re: No WPA under Wireless Security

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, krischan wrote:
> I've installed NetworkManager-0.6 successfully. But when I tried to
> access my WPA2 secured WLAN with the applet option "connect with an
> other wireless lan" (I am from Germany, maybe it is called other in
> english) I get a window with the option to input the "Network Name" and
> choose the "Wireless Security". But there is only "None", "WEP
> Passphrase", "WEP 40/128-bit hex" AND "WEP 40/128-bit ASCII"!
> 
> When I enter the ESSID and the Password  with "WEP Passphrase" and "Open
> "System" i get the log messages which you can see in the weplog file.
> 
> I use Gentoo Linux and have installed wpa_supplicant-0.5.1, dbus-0.61,
> wireless-tools-28_pre10, dhcdbd-1.12-r1 and hal-0.5.6. For more versions
> please ask me...

What wireless card, driver, and kernel are you using?  Is your driver listed as 
WPA-capable at http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManagerHardware?

It's likely that your card or driver doesn't have the necessary WPA support yet.

Dan