Re: WPA on Atheros.

["Darren Albers" <dalbers gmail com>]

Have you tried the patch posted by Dan that patchs madwifi-ng to tell
NetworkManager that it supports WPA?

http://madwifi.org/ticket/444

With that patch NetworkManager sees my Atheros card as supporting WPA.

On 3/9/06, Pat Suwalski <pat suwalski net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to get NetworkManager running with madwifi and wpa-psk. It
> tends to work (after a long association time) with WEP, but with wpa it
> just pops up a message saying "The requested wireless network requires
> security capabilities unsupported by your hardware."
>
> I know it should work, since I get the impression that that's the
> hardware the esteemed Mister Robert Love (just got your book yesterday,
> good stuff!) uses.
>
> I'm using NetworkManager 0.6, wpa_supplicant 0.5.1, and madwifi v1443.
> I'm using Robert's patch for forcing madwifi, and a timeout of 90 seconds.
>
> The log doesn't show anything concretely wrong with it, it's pasted in
> below.
>
> I'm just about ready to dump this card in favour of ipw or something.
> It's silly that all of this worked better when I got it two years ago. I
> can't understand the ridiculous regressions in madwifi.
>
> --Pat
>
>
>
> Mar  9 00:01:16 inspiron NetworkManager: <debug info>
> [1141880476.510155] nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_activation_ap ():
> Forcing AP 'suwnet'
> Mar  9 00:01:16 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  User Switch:
> /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/ath0 / suwnet
> Mar  9 00:01:16 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Deactivating
> device ath0.
> Mar  9 00:01:16 inspiron dhclient: can't create
> /var/lib/dhclient/dhclient-ath0.leases: No such file or directory
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Device ath0
> activation scheduled...
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0) started...
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) scheduled...
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Old device
> 'ath0' activating, won't change.
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) started...
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) scheduled...
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare) complete.
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) starting...
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0/wireless): access point 'suwnet' is encrypted, but NO valid key
> exists.  New key needed.
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0) New wireless user key requested for network 'suwnet'.
> Mar  9 00:01:19 inspiron NetworkManager: <information>  Activation
> (ath0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure) complete.
>
> And that's all she bloody wrote. It just sits there after that.
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