Re: WPA and madwifi

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

This is probably not a list for that level of detail on that subject
this list is specific to a single application that is called Network
Manager, I would look for a Forum or mailing list dedicated to your
Linux Distro for that question.

For example Ubuntu has an active community at www.ubuntuforums.org
where there are a number of posts that answer your question
specifically for the ubuntu Distro.

On 2/19/06, bruce <bedouglas earthlink net> wrote:
> hi darren...
>
> i'm trying to figure out the exact steps needed to get a wireless card ro
> work in my dell inspiron laptop.
>
> if someone could tell me what/which card i need to get, and then provide
> exact/detailed steps on exactly what i need to do, i'd really appreciate
> it...
>
> i can pretty much get any card i need as long as it comes from fry's /best
> buy/compusa/etc... i'd prefer to not have to really recompile the RHEL 4
> kernel....
>
> thanks
>
> -bruce
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: networkmanager-list-bounces gnome org
> [mailto:networkmanager-list-bounces gnome org]On Behalf Of Darren Albers
> Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:46 PM
> To: networkmanager-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: WPA and madwifi
>
>
> Dan posted this recently:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------------------
> Patch the driver to support range->enc_capa like has been done for
> ipw2200 and ipw2100.
>
> Dan
>
> --- ./net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c.enccapa     2006-01-24
> 09:45:12.000000000 -0500
> +++ ./net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c     2006-01-24 09:46:16.000000000 -0500
> @@ -976,6 +976,9 @@
>        range->min_frag = 256;
>        range->max_frag = 2346;
>
> +       range->enc_capa = IW_ENC_CAPA_WPA | IW_ENC_CAPA_WPA2 |
> +               IW_ENC_CAPA_CIPHER_TKIP | IW_ENC_CAPA_CIPHER_CCMP;
> +
>        return 0;
>  }
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------
> I made that change and now NetworkManager knows that the card supports
> WPA but it doesn't seem to work.
>
> I think this is a Madwifi issue, it works fine with my Intel 2200 card
> with the latest driver...  I think we are just out of luck until the
> Madwifi team gets things worked out with interaction with
> NetworkManager.
>
> On 2/19/06, Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net> wrote:
> > I've looked through the list archives, but I'm not quite sure what I'm
> > supposed to do to get these two working together.  I'm using the latest
> > Fedora rawhide NetworkManager with the latest madwifi-ng.  If I try to
> > connect to a WPA network (Linksys WRT54G set for WPA2 and TKIP+AES),
> > nm-applet tells me:
> >
> >   Error connecting to wireless network
> >
> >   The requested wireless network requires security capabilities
> >   unsupported by your hardware.
> >
> > I couldn't tell for sure: am I supposed to start wpa_supplicant myself
> > or does NetworkManager do it?
> >
> > I can successfully disable NetworkManager, manually configure
> > wpa_supplicant, and bring up the interface, so I do know that madwifi-ng
> > and wpa_supplicant are working.
> >
> > Am I doing something wrong, or is it not quite working?  If it isn't
> > working, what can I do to help get it working?
> > --
> > Chris Adams <cmadams hiwaay net>
> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
> > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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