Re: Manually set wpa_supplicant.conf for one SSID?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 13:07 -0500, Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> Thanks for the great work on this project so far -- it's really made
> networking a lot easier on Linux, seems like.
> 
> I have a question about using LEAP on an ipw3945 with kernel 2.6.17-11
> and NM 0.6.3-2ubuntu6 -- I know that 0.7 will support it (from reading

The stable branch does include LEAP support, and it will be in 0.6.5
when that gets released soon.

Dan

> the mailing lists and other websites, I see there are development
> patches out there and the like), however I can't really upgrade easily
> to 0.7 even to test as I really don't want to use anything but packages
> on this machine (I can do the other stuff, but I want to keep my machine
> lean and easy to manage).
> 
> What I can't tell, however, is if I can do anything to cause
> NetworkManager to use a specific set of options for a particular SSID.
> NetworkManager works great to connect at home with WEP104 and to wired
> networks, but the office wireless network uses LEAP and there is no set
> of options I can set in the GUI (knetworkmanager) to make this happen.
> My current solution is setting NM in offline mode and manaully launching
> wpa_supplicant to connect.
> 
> What are my options here? I'd like to see the bar graph of the
> interface, and to have my apps that read NM's status to not say "waiting
> for network" when I'm already connected.
> 
> Thanks again and I look forward to hearing my options. :)
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