Re: Feature Request

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 01:56 -0500, Matthew Shannon wrote:
> Well that's good news, as I have been trying to get LEAP to work at
> school for months. I don't know if it is my hardware or if I am just
> stupid. I have tried using a Cisco Aironet 352 PCMCIA card with the
> Cisco ACU program, but since it was written for kernel 2.2.x, it just
> isn't going to work with 2.6 without being rewritten. I have had more
> luck with my Proxim Orinoco Gold a/b/g combo card but even then all I
> got was momentary association. It would associate long enough that if
> I ran iwconfig back to back, it would be associated for one out of 4
> tries. Not long enough to run wpa_supplicant. 

The airo driver only supports leap through private ioctls, not through
standard mechanisms, so it's likely not going to work here.  The orinoco
card might work, depending on the driver.

> How do I get the development stable version? What dependencies and
> versions of said dependencies do I need? I think part of my problem
> could be that most of the documentation I have found on the various
> config files seem to need me to know a LOT about wireless technologies
> in order to set them up. Not to say that it needs to be dumbed down or
> anything, I just don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of the
> technology right now. 
> 
> Oh, and you said you need to spin a release of 0.6.5, do you know when
> that will be?

Probably in the next week or two.

Dan