Re: wlags49 and network manager

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 12:11 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 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?

That said, this driver just sucks.  It's not even distributed from the
vendor any more, it doesn't appear to have an actual community project
around it, and there's not even a canonical download location that I can
find.  It apparently hasn't been updated since 2003 that I can find, and
it's WEXT support for WPA is pretty bad.

Dan

> 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
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> 
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