FC9 NetworkManager & WPA

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Aug 23 16:13:22 UTC 2008


On Saturday 23 August 2008 17:00:05 Devon Harding wrote:
> 2008/8/23 Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
>
> > On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:26:06 Devon Harding wrote:
> > > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Brian Powell <bpowell01 at gmail.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > > Devon,
> > > >
> > > > Make sure you have the wpa_supplicant package installed.
> > >
> > > The wpa_supplicant package is installed (and the update).  When I
> > > select
> >
> > my
> >
> > > wireless from the drop down list, it still asks for a WEP key instead
> > > of
> >
> > a
> >
> > > WPA key.
> > >
> > > Do I need the wpa_supplicant_gui package too?
> >
That shouldn't make any difference

> > I see the same behaviour on my EeePC.  It does no harm, but it's b******
> > annoying.  (I presume that, like me, you can use the drop-down arrow to
> > select WPA then manually give it the passphrase?)
> >
> > Anne
>
> The thing is, WPA is not one of the choices.  I only have the following:
>
> WEP 128-bit Passphrase
> WEP 40/128-bit Hexadecimal
> WEP 40/128-bit ASCII
> LEAP
> Dynamic WEP (802.1x)

That's really odd.  Sorry I can't help.

Anne
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