Re: Problems connecting to wireless network

["Joshua L. Phillips" <mandingueiro users sourceforge net>]

I have gotten this to work on FC5, but I have an Netgear MA401RA and a 
Microsoft MN-520 (both use the hostap drivers.) I had a few issues 
getting this going though.

A few suggestions:
1. I would stop the NM service, start the wpa_supplicant service  and 
use wpa_gui to try to negotiate a connection to the AP.

If this works, then NM isn't configuring wpa_supplicant correctly. I 
don't know how to help this problem, but it might be a actual NM bug.

However, if you still can't get a connection then you probably have a 
network configuration conflict.

2. I would make sure that you have no devices configured on your 
wireless card (system-config-network-gui) and that there are no aliases 
in your /etc/modprobe.conf file to you wireless card.

3. A lot of people startup wpa_supplicant at the END of their 
ifup-wireless script and stop using NM. However, I had to start 
wpa_supplicant at the BEGINNING of my ifup-wireless script (don't use 
any of the traditional configuration script, make it a big ELSE section 
if you are using wpa_supplicant.) The traditional setup was putting my 
driver into some kind of state that rendered wpa_supplicant ineffective 
once it was started.

Maybe this will help a little...

JLP

dragoran wrote:
> Mitchell Mebane wrote:
> > dragoran wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > > I have a laptop with a ipw3945 wireless interface card and using FC5 
> > > (x86_64) with wpa_supplicant-0.4.8-10.fc5 and NetworkManager-0.6.4-1.fc5.
> > > At work I have to configure this to be able to connect to the wireless 
> > > network:
> > > 802.1x
> > > WEP dynamic
> > > EAP-PEAP with MS-CHAPv2
> > > or
> > > EAP-TTLS with MS-CHAPv2
> > > and login with my username and password
> > > But using networkmanager (I tryed wpa_enterprise and wpa2_enterprise) 
> > > there is no option to select MS-CHAPv2 (wpa_supplicant man page says 
> > > that it is supported).
> > > Is this config supported with networkmanager ?
> > > If not can I let networkmanager use a custom config file?
> > > If both does not work/ is not possible, is this support planned for 0.7 
> > > (or any later version) ?
> > > Please help my I have been searching in google in the last 2 weeks but 
> > > found nothing, thats why I am asking here.
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > NetworkManager-list mailing list
> > > NetworkManager-list gnome org
> > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
> > >
> > >   
> > I am also interested in getting EAP-PEAP with MSCHAPv2 working, as 
> > that's what my school network uses.  Getting wireless working is 
> > really the only thing keeping me from switching to Linux at this 
> > point, so it would be nice if this is possible or planned.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mitchell Mebane
>
> any ideas/comments? has anyone connected to a such a network using NM?
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