Re: NM fc5 prism wpa_supp setup?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 16:27 +0100, Jon Escombe wrote:
> Hi Morgan,
> 
> I can maybe help you with a couple of your points (I don't have your 
> card, but am using NM under FC5)..
> 
>  > _Issues_
>  > - When I attempt to authenticate with the uoa wireless network through
>  > NM all I'm offered the wep options (as per my home wep network)
> 
> This list is populated using the capabilities reported by your driver. 
> Is the hostap driver any better in this respect?
> 
>  > - I read somewhere that using wpa_supplicant with NM, wpa_supp is not
>  > meant to be started by init?
>  > - I found /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant, which seems to list only
>  > configuration for hostap driver (wlan0) or ndiswrapper?
>  > -- Is this the config for wpa_supp working with NM?  If so, can it be
>  > configured for use with other drivers, i.e. orinoco?
> 
> NM doesn't use the static configuration file, but will start a new 
> instance of wpa_supplicant and pass it the correct parameters - so 
> wpa_supplicant shouldn't be running already. I believe the standard 
> package configures wpa_supp to use wext in all cases (but might be wrong 
> - there have been some patches around to override this).
> 
> NM 0.6.2 is in the FC5 updates-testing repository, and might be worth a 
> try. However, you'll still be stuck at the first point above without the 
> driver telling NM that the card is capable of WPA...

FYI, it and the newer wpa_supplicant got moved to -updates yesterday.

> Regards,
> Jon.
> 
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