Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 18:58 +0200, Quintin Beukes wrote:
> The type of encryption shouldn't make a difference to sharing ability.
> It's 2 completely differently networking layers.

Actually it does; you can't connect to a WPA2-only Ad-Hoc network with
the current wpa_supplicant and Linux kernel drivers.  So that means NM
can't use those networks.  But they are quite rare.

Dan

> Though, how are you sharing it? Are you building custom firewall
> rules, or using some automated sharing via a configuration option?
> 
> Quintin Beukes
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Gonsolo <gonsolo gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I wanted to inform you that I was able to share my connection with WEP64 but
> > not WPA/WPA2.
> >
> > I am connecting my Ipod Touch 2nd generation to my notebook (ath5k based
> > WLAN card, Ubuntu Karmic) which is connected to the internet via UMTS
> > (Huawei E220, "option" kernel module).
> > It works with WEP64 encryption but not with WPA/WPA2 encryption.
> >
> > Is that problem known?
> > I would be happy to provide more information (lsmod, log messages, etc).
> > Should I file a bug?
> > If so, where (Launchpad, Gnome, Fedora)?
> >
> > g
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