Re: wpa_supplicant - how?

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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> wpa_supppicant, but it does not work with this wireless card! I
> understand that rt2x00 is under heavy development now. However the
> rt73 driver does support WPA encryption natively so it should in
> principle be possible to get a connection to a WPA encrypted AP with a
> little extra work.

Ah take care, there is an ugly situation with the current kernels and
rt2571-based devices.  Both the correct rt73usb driver and the bogus
rt2500usb driver are loaded, and it doesn't work by default since the
wrong driver gets in first.  Add this to /etc/modprobe.conf

install rt2500usb /bin/true

and reboot and retry the rt73usb situation (from the version supplied
with the Fedora kernel if you have been cooking your own).  I had good
luck with this and wpa_supplicant in the last two weeks.

> Has anyone managed to achieve this ? If so how? Are there details on a
> web page somewhere?
> 
> b) Laptop 3 is a Samsung Q35 running FC6 and has an IPW3945 wireless
> card in it. With the recent kernels and the iwl3945 driver it has been
> possible to get this driver working and connected with a stable WEP
> encrypted link to the AP.
> In this machine the FC6 version of wpa_supplicant is 0.4.9-1 and seems
> not to support the iwl3945 driver yet!

It should work fine, I have one of these laptops, on F7 admittedly.  Use
-Dwext on wpa_supplicant.

Why not grab the F7 wpa_supplicant RPM by hand and see what kind of
dependencies it would need if you installed it on the FC6 system.

-Andy

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