Re: trouble with network manager connecting to ap's & dell 1390 ndiswrapper

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 15:40 -0400, Darren Albers wrote:
> On 9/23/06, colin williams <psientist gmail com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >  I'm unable to connect to ap's in the nm-applet list. It shows the available
> >  ap's but it cannot connect to them. I believe that NetworkManager is having
> >  trouble setting the ssid, but when I manually use iwconfig wlan0 essid ssid
> >  it works. Does anybody have a fix?I am running ubuntu  edgy. I had
> > simlilar problems in dapper also, which is why I tried edgy.
> >
> > sudo ndiswrapper -v
> > Password:
> > utils Error: no version specified!
> > driver version:        1.22
> > vermagic:       2.6.17-7-generic SMP mod_unload 586 REGPARM gcc-4.1
> 
> I think here is the problem:
> #
> NetworkManager: <information>   wpa_supplicant(1717):  00:16:ce:5e:c9:66
> #
> NetworkManager: <information>   wpa_supplicant(1717): Driver does not
> #
> support WPA.
> 
> I think this is a bug with the edgy package or possibly ndiswrapper
> doesn't support WPA with your card, the Ubuntu maintainer used Robert
> Love's wireless driver patch to support drivers that don't properly
> support the latest Wireless Extensions.  The older NDISWrapper was one
> of those drivers, however I am pretty sure that the newer versions of
> NDISWrapper support the latest WEXT so the patch should be changed to
> not pass -Dndiswrapper when it detects a card using ndiswrapper.

I think versions 1.18 and higher of ndiswrapper support the WPA WEXT
calls.

Dan

> You can also try using the Broadcom driver that came with Edgy, I have
> heard that it works well for /some/ broadcom cards.
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