Re: Some questions -- wpa_supplicant

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Please keep replies on-list for everyone's benefit.

Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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>> You might want to write a more specific subject next time, for
>> everyone's benefit. Everyone who writes to the list has "some questions."
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>> Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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>>> Hello, I am new here.  Running 0.6.4 in Centos 5.1 on an HP nc2400
>>> notebook with the Intel ipw3945 dkms code from rpmforge.
>>>
>>> I just switched my operation over the this nc2400 from my old nc4010
>>> which had an Atheros card using the madwifi dkms code from rpmforge
>>> and I did everything via wpa_supplicant.conf (and the wpa_cli program!).
>>>
>>> So with this install, I could not get the wpa_supplicant working. 
>>> Seems like it only supports the ipw2200 card?  And I found
>>> NetworkManager; good job! So far  :)
>>>     
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>> Incorrect. It probably best supports that card, but as far as I know,
>> all Intel cards are supported. Really any card that has a driver
>> supporting Wireless Extensions.
>>   
> Well I tried running:
> 
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -B -D ipw3945 -i eth1 -c 
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> And I get Unsupported driver 'ipw3945'
> 
> So I read the man wpa_supplicant and find that I should say -D ipw and
> that only ipw2200 is supported.  But I tried anyway:
> 
> /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -B -D ipw -i eth1 -c 
> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> And still got unsupported device.

No, you want wext for basically all modern cards, not ipw. Those other
drivers are really legacy holdovers, and hopefully will go away.

> I added an alias to modprobe.conf and that did not help.
> 
> This is all on Centos 5.1

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