Re: Cannot get wireless connection on Fedora 5

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 07:58 +0800, kraekan westnet com au wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. I have re-attached the file in case in didn't
> get through.
> 
> >
> >---- Original Message ----
> >From: gene heskett verizon net
> >To: networkmanager-list gnome org
> >Subject: Re: Cannot get wireless connection on Fedora 5
> >Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 18:59:48 -0400
> >
> >>On Friday 28 April 2006 05:17, kraekan westnet com au wrote:
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>that FC5 doesn't by default enable wpa_supplicant, which AIUI, has
> >to 
> >>do with key negotiations.  It might be enlightening to do a
> >"chkconfig 
> >>--list wpa_supplicant".
> 
> Checking that, wpa_supplicant is not enabled but starting it fails. 
> It seems to be looking for wlan0. I can't believe you need to
> configure 
> wpa_supplicant though? Wouldn't that defeat the purpose of
> NetworkManager!
> 
> The problem I see is that the _key_ gets set OK but the _restricted
> mode_ does
> not. NetworkManager appears to forget that it's been told to you the
> shared key
> rather than open key.

I'm pushing some FC5 updates to fc5-updates-testing to wpa_supplicant
and NM that may fix the shared key (restricted) problem.

Dan



> I can actually set it with "iwconfig eth1 key restricted" while its
> connecting and
> the connection will then work fine. Hope that's clearer.
> 
> >>
> >>>If there is anything further I can do to help please let me know.
> >>>
> >>>Regards,
> >>>
> >>>Robert.
> >>>
> >>>>---- Original Message ----
> >>>>From: dcbw redhat com
> >>>>To: jlagrue gmail com
> >>>>Subject: Re: Cannot get wireless connection on Fedora 5
> >>>>Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:53:08 -0400
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> Regards,
> 
> Robert.
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