Hello
Is there a recommended NetworkManager setup is for prism II cards with a
wpa setup (the gnome archive search doesn't reveal anything)?
_Setup_
- Card: Allied Telesyn (see below for ident)
- Network: University of Auckland (uoa), wpa_supplicant (config as below).
- uname -r: 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5
- rpm -q NetworkManager: NetworkManager-0.6.0-3
_Issues_
- When I attempt to authenticate with the uoa wireless network through
NM all I'm offered the wep options (as per my home wep network)
- I initially had some problems setting up the card for my home wep
network due to conflicts between orinoco and hostap drivers
-- Now it seems to have settled down, and I can use either by
blacklisting hostap drivers in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist or not
-- I prefer to use the orinoco driver because it seems to give a better link
-- Is there a more elegant remedy to this conflict, which is recommended?
- Does wpa_supplicant work with orinoco?
-- It's not a listed driver for wpa_supp and using the wext extensions
with it gave me a hole lot of errors
- I read somewhere that using wpa_supplicant with NM, wpa_supp is not
meant to be started by init?
- I found /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant, which seems to list only
configuration for hostap driver (wlan0) or ndiswrapper?
-- Is this the config for wpa_supp working with NM? If so, can it be
configured for use with other drivers, i.e. orinoco?
- I've got the connection working to the UoA network via the config
below by not blacklisting either orinoco or hostap, running wpa_supp
from the command line <wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf>
and then running <dhclient wlan0>
-- Like this, NM shows no connection but it still offers uoa as a
wireless connection
_More info_
[root morgansmachine ~]# pccardctl ident
Socket 0:
product info: "Allied Telesyn", "AT-WCL452 Wireless PCMCIA Radio",
"Ver. 1.00", ""
manfid: 0xc00f, 0x0000
function: 6 (network)
[root morgansmachine ~]#
[root morgansmachine ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"uoa" Nickname:"Prism I"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:11:92:DA:CF:40
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Sensitivity:1/3
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality=70/92 Signal level=-23 dBm Noise level=-143 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:3295 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
[root morgansmachine ~]#
[root morgansmachine ~]# more etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
ssid="any"
key_mgmt=NONE
}
### Added 3-5 MR.
network={
ssid="uoa"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=IEEE8021X
eap=PEAP
identity="EC\mrea005"
password="password"
ca_cert="/etc/cert/verisign_2028.pem"
ca_cert2="/etc/cert/verisign_2028.pem"
phase2="auth=MSCHAPV2"
}
[root morgansmachine ~]#
Regards,
Morgan.
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NEW ZEALAND
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