Re: Some questions -- wpa_supplicant

[Robert Moskowitz <rgm htt-consult com>]

Ryan Novosielski wrote:
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> Please keep replies on-list for everyone's benefit.
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oops.  Just did a reply, am use that on most lists this replys to the 
list, not to the original sender...

For this list, I have to do a reply to all, the edit the to/cc headers 
(using Thunderbird 1.5)
> 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.
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> > > > 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.
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> > Well I tried running:
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> > /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -B -D ipw3945 -i eth1 -c 
> > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
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> > And I get Unsupported driver 'ipw3945'
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> > 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:
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> > /usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant wpa_supplicant -B -D ipw -i eth1 -c 
> > /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
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> > And still got unsupported device.
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> No, you want wext for basically all modern cards, not ipw. Those other
> drivers are really legacy holdovers, and hopefully will go away.
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OH.  I missed this one.  Well actually I recall that how I finally even 
got NetworkManager working was to edit /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant to 
have:

wpa_supplicant:DRIVERS="-Dwext"

I did not 'get' this previously!