Re: How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?

[Anne Wilson]

On Monday 30 Jan 2006 15:10, Dan Williams wrote:
>  On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 06:44 -0800, Tom London wrote:
>  > - Device: eth1
>  > ---------------------------------------------------------------- NM
>  > Path:           /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth1 Type: 
>  >             802.11 Wireless
>  >   Active:            no
>  >   HW Address:        00:13:CE:BE:8E:B0
>  >
>  >   Capabilities:
>  >     Supported:       yes
>  >
>  >   Wireless Settings
>  >     Scanning:        yes
>  >     WEP Encryption:  yes
>
>  The card doesn't support WPA, probably just for that one small patch.
>
>  > nm-applet shows the 'networkworks', but selecting a WPA one borks.
>  > Appears that nm-applet only (really) knows about WEP (ie. none of
>  > the pull-downs have WPA entries).
>
>  Yes, it won't show options that the card (or access point) don't
>  support.
>  
Dan, I'm not sure what you mean by 'The card doesn't support WPA'. 
My 
laptop with the ipw2200 is dual-booting, and I have no problem setting 
up WPA-PSK in XP.  Do you mean that I shall not be able to when I put 
FC on that laptop?

Anne
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