Re: Works with wpa_supplicant -D wext, but not with NM

["Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart gathman org>]

Stuart Gathman wrote:
> wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.1.fc6
> NetworkManager-0.6.4-6.el5
>
> The error message from NM is:
> The requested wireless network requires security capabilities 
> unsupported by your hardware.
> (gnome/applet/passphrase-dialog.c)
>
> wpa_applicant works fine.  wifi-radar works fine.  I am sending this 
> over WPA wireless.
Wicd also works great.  In fact, it has a root priv background daemon 
talking to user priv applications over dbus, like network manager 
(wifi-radar is terrible security wise).  It shows wired as well as 
wireless, auto connects to best available, is written entirely in 
python, so the code is very accessible.  http://wicd.sf.net

What is the killer feature of NM?  I suppose efficiently calling network 
APIs directly instead of running iwlist, iwconfig, etc, from a script.   
(Maybe I should contribute a native module to let wicd do that in 
python, but I'll lift it from NM after you guys get it debugged :-)  The 
NM user applet is nicer than the standalone gui for wicd.  I'm also 
thinking that mesh algorithms like OLTP uses are best done in C.    So 
I'll be watching NM, and will give 0.7 a try when it is packaged (it 
sounds good from the discussion here), but wicd is what I'm giving my 
users for the time being.