Re: Some questions -- wpa_supplicant

[Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu>]

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Robert Moskowitz wrote:
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> 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...
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> For this list, I have to do a reply to all, the edit the to/cc headers 
> (using Thunderbird 1.5)

There is a "Reply-To-List" extension out there that I mean to see if I
can dig up. It only works on Thunderbird 1.x -- the new one that is easy
to find only works on patched 2.x and the yet-unreleased 3.x. I'll let
you know if I find it.

(sorry to go off-topic)

>> 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."
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>   
> 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!

In fact, I'm pretty sure that NetworkManager ONLY supports cards that
conform to -Dwext -- wpa_supplicant can also use all the others.

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