How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 12:53:44 UTC 2006


On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 21:51 +1100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-01-28 at 15:57 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I believe the bcm43xx driver should support WPA.

Technically, yes.  However, it needs a patch like the one attached (from
ipw2100) in bcm43xx_wx_get_rangeparams() to actually tell anything
(including NM) what it supports.  This patch is >= WE-18 only.

Dan

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