F7 and WLAN on Sony

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Thu May 31 23:39:36 UTC 2007


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Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 18:25 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
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>> Steven Stern wrote:
>>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:45 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> I've enabled  Network Manager via chkconfig and rebooted. The system 
>>>>> sees the built-in wireless but it will not connect to my network secured 
>>>>> with WPA2.  It spins for a while then gives up.  What's the trick to this?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>> You should disable network and enable NetworkManager,
>>>> NetWorkManagerDispatcher and of this I am not sure but there is the
>>>> nm-applet that may have to be enabled of it may as before work
>>>> automatically when NetworkManager finds a wlan.
>>>>   
>>> Done.  But... I can see the list of available access points and 
>>> /var/log/messages shows wpa_supplicant being fired up to send handle the
>>> handshake.  But then it just seems to die.
>>>
>> Replying to myself:
>>
>> I can connect to my home network that uses a 128bit hex key.  The
>> problem seems to be in the wpa authentication rather than in the
>> wireless connection itself.
> 
> Uh, what kind of card is it?  Under FC6, the "bcm4xxx" driver never
> worked for me with WPA (and barely worked for 128 bit WEP).  To get the
> beblistered thing to work I had to run ndiswrapper and the Winblows
> driver for it.
> 
> Just my $.02.

It's using the iwl3945 driver.

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  Steve
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