Re: ipw3945 wireless not working

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On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Progress...
>
>  There is NO physical switch. XP had some way of enabling the radio. So I
>  went into the bios and played around a bit. Tried an option and now
>  NetworkManager sees the card!
>
>  But when I enter my WPA passphrase, I keep going back to being asked for
>  the passphrase :(
>
>  I noticed that NetworkManager is using eth1 for the the wireless
>  interface, not wifi0 that I put into modprobe.conf (alias wifi0 ipw3945).
>
>  I tried to use wpa_supplicant deamon as I do on my nc4010 that has an
>  atheros pci card. man wpa_supplicant lists ipw as a valid device, but
>  when I supply this, i get
>
>  Unsupported driver 'ipw'
>
>  SO why does it not like my passphrase that works just fine with my
>  nc4010 and its ahteros card? Granted theweak passphrase I am using fails
>  password checkers, but still.....
>
>  Or how to use wpa_supplicant instead of NetworkManager (which is pretty
>  cool, where is its config files).

Not sure if this helps but might be worthwhile reading the forum thread at:

http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=12881&forum=40
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