Re: wpa_supplicant

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On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 15:41 +0000, Mike C wrote:
> I have been playing with wpa_supplicant - and on one Dell d610 running
> up-to-date F7 I can get the wpa_supplicant running (both manual and daemon) to
> get a stable working link to thw AP with the ipw2200 inbuilt wireless card. This
> is using wpa_supplicant to connect using WEP encryption to the local AP. At this
> point I believe that setting up a WPA network section in wpa_supplicant.conf
> will likely get a working connection with WPA encryption.
> 
> However I have also been trying two other systems which need to be tested before
> thinking about switching encryption on the AP from WEP to WPA, and I will give
> the current situation with each before asking a few questions on this list.
> 
> a) Laptop 2 is an Amilo with no inbuilt wireless and it runs F7 fully up to date
> with an Edimax USB wireless card. By compiling the rt73 driver myself this can
> connect nicely to the WEP encrypted AP, but the rt73 driver is not supported in
> wpa_supplicant version 0.5.7 in F7. There is nominally a driver in the current
> kernel (rt2x00) which has rt73usb support, and is supported in the current
> version of 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.
> 
> 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!
> 
> So I have a dilemma here - it would be nice to have all three laptops able to
> make a WPA encrypted connection to the AP. However it seems that at present I
> can only get one of them to potentially achieve this! Maybe the second with a
> tail wind!
> 
> So the questions are:
> 
> 1) It may be possible to get the EDimax USB dongle to get a WPA link going but
> this is not tested - has anyone else managed to achieve this in F7? If so how,
> and is there a web page describing the details?
> 
> 2) I am reluctant to move the Samsung from FC6 to F7 yet since I am not 100%
> confident that the ipw3945 card will be supported in a stable way with the
> iwl3945 driver in F7 (anyone done this?) but also I would like to know if there
> will soon be a version of wpa_supplicant in FC6 that does work with iwl3945 -
> has anyone managed to do this successfully yet?
> 
> Is there a test version of wpa_supplicant for FC6 available that will work in
> FC6 with the iwl3945 card using the iwl3945 driver in the latest FC6 kernel?
> 
> Thanks
> 
In addition to all these questions , why don't you use NetworkMamager.
If you did you would not have to worry about configuring wpa_supplicant
and if the cards are supported then WEP and various WPA's are supported,
With and without LEAP or PEAP for example.
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