Re: wlags49 and network manager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 14:04 +0200, Patrick Sernetz wrote:
> Tpp bad, it�s a hermes card. :(.

So there's actually firmware that can make the hermes cards do WPA?

Dan

> Am Montag, den 27.08.2007, 15:48 -0400 schrieb Dan Williams:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 15:47 +0200, Patrick Sernetz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I�ve got a little problem with Network Manager and the wlags49 driver
> > > for orinoco cards. I�ve got a Toshiba 6100 pro laptop with orinoco_cs
> > > comaptible card. I�ve tried the newer wlags49 driver which was developed
> > > by Agere. The driver works well and enables me to use wpa. The only
> > > problem is, That NM connects fine when it is an unencrypted network but
> > > fails if its an encrypted (WEP at the moment).
> > > It would be nice if NM could support this driver. Maybe it does allready
> > > and my distribution (Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon) isn�t up2date enough.
> > 
> > NM makes no guarantees with drivers not distributed with the linux
> > kernel.  Most vendor drivers do not implement WEXT well enough to let
> > them do anything interesting.  I'd recommend using the built-in "hostap"
> > drivers instead, as long as your card is not a 'hermes' card.  Most
> > cards supported by orinoco_cs are supported by hostap_cs as well.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> > 
> > 
>