How to get WPA-Support with NetworkManager?
Tom London
selinux at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 14:44:14 UTC 2006
nm-tool says the following for my ipw2200(and wired too!):
NetworkManager Tool
State: connected
- Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------
NM Path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/eth0
Type: Wired
Active: yes
HW Address: 00:0A:E4:3D:A7:85
Capabilities:
Supported: yes
Carrier Detect: yes
Wired Settings
Hardware Link: yes
IP Settings:
IP Address: 192.168.1.103
Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Broadcast: 192.168.1.255
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Primary DNS: 68.87.76.178
Secondary DNS: 68.87.66.196
- 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
Wireless Networks (* = Current Network)
free4all: Infrastructure Mode, Freq 0.000 MHz, Strength
87%, Encrypted (WPA)
2WIRE970: Infrastructure Mode, Freq 0.000 MHz, Strength
29%, Encrypted (WEP)
2WIRE138: Infrastructure Mode, Freq 0.000 MHz, Strength
27%, Encrypted (WEP)
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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).
tom
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