How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Sat Jan 28 21:08:33 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 22:06 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> Am Samstag, den 28.01.2006, 15:57 -0500 schrieb Dan Williams:
> > On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 20:37 +0100, Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > read about WPA-support with NetworkManager. How can i get this? I have
> > > already wpa_suuplicant in use...
> > 
> > First you need a card with WEXT-compliant WPA support.  That means using
> > the 'wext' driver of wpa_supplicant.  Second, even if that works, the
> > card's driver needs to set the enc_capa field for it's iw_range
> > structure, which at least ipw does right now.  The other drivers
> > in-kernel don't actually support WPA yet.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
> Thanks Dan, 
> so no chance with ndiswrapper

Hmm, likely not.  Is this from CVS?

Dan





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