<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 1:13 PM, max <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:maximilianbianco@gmail.com">maximilianbianco@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:58 PM, max <<a href="mailto:maximilianbianco@gmail.com" target="_blank">maximilianbianco@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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Devon Harding wrote:<br>
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2008/8/23 Anne Wilson <<a href="mailto:cannewilson@googlemail.com" target="_blank">cannewilson@googlemail.com</a>><br>
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On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:26:06 Devon Harding wrote:<br>
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Brian Powell <<a href="mailto:bpowell01@gmail.com" target="_blank">bpowell01@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Devon,<br>
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Make sure you have the wpa_supplicant package installed.<br>
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The wpa_supplicant package is installed (and the update). When I<br>
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wireless from the drop down list, it still asks for a WEP key instead of<br>
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WPA key.<br>
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Do I need the wpa_supplicant_gui package too?<br>
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I see the same behaviour on my EeePC. It does no harm, but it's<br>
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annoying. (I presume that, like me, you can use the drop-down arrow to<br>
select WPA then manually give it the passphrase?)<br>
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Anne<br>
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The thing is, WPA is not one of the choices. I only have the following:<br>
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WEP 128-bit Passphrase<br>
WEP 40/128-bit Hexadecimal<br>
WEP 40/128-bit ASCII<br>
LEAP<br>
Dynamic WEP (802.1x)<br>
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Have you tried an older kernel? I have seen some weird stuff with<br>
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wireless on the latest but it may be something else going on there.<br>
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What kind of wireless device are you working with?<br>
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I tried Ubuntu (Hardy) and got the same thing. If I choose 'Connect to<br>
other wireless network' I do see the option for WPA, but it doesn't seems<br>
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But what wireless card are you using? I suspect your problem may be there, its a possibility to explore anyway.<br>
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from a terminal as root:<br>
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it will produce a lot of output , look for the wireless device it should be obviously labeled<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Here's the output:<br><br>00:12.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)<br> Subsystem: Fujitsu Limited. Unknown device 1169<br> Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 9<br>
Memory at e8013000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]<br> Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2<br> Kernel driver in use: hostap_pci<br> Kernel modules: orinoco_pci, hostap_pci<br></div>