FC9 NetworkManager & WPA

[Devon Harding]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 12:00 -0400, 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?
> >         >
> >
> >         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)
> Left click on the applet and chose connect to other netwok. There you
> should get a choice to use WPA.
> >
> --


When I do that, it doesn't connect to the network.  I've been reading and it
seems that the firmware may be an issue:

http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/
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