Re: ifcfg-rh and wpa_supplicant

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 23:39 +0200, Oncaphillis wrote:
> On 05/18/2012 11:23 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2012-05-17 at 09:58 +0200, Oncaphillis wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>    I'm using Fedora16 and I'm trying to set up NetworkManager to connect
> >> to a wlan on startup via /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip/ifcfg-wlan0 or
> >> /etc/sysconfig/network-scrip/ifcfg-<ESSID>.  It seems the settings in
> >> /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant are ignored if wpa_supplicant is managed
> >> by the NetworkManager,but I don't see any option to pass the -D<driver>
> >> option to wpa_supplicant.
> >
> > Correct, the settings in /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant can be harmful
> > when NetworkManager is used, because NetworkManager figures out whether
> > to use the wext, nl80211, or wired driver as appropriate.  What's the
> > reason you want to use a specific supplicant driver?
> >
> > Dan
> >
> 
> Simply the observation that wpa_supplicant fails to associate when
> not using -Dwext

What wifi kernel driver?

Dan