Re: Feature Request

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 18:43 +0100, Grant Williamson wrote:
> I tried the 0.6.5 branch(cvs 10/06) from fedora devel, indeed leap 
> shows. I only tested on my home network, would not connect to wpa-psk. 
> Is there any "near ready" drop I should be testing?

Yeah; 0.6.5 from SVN branch.  Could you provide some logs so we can try
to track it down?  Once I get done splitting the applet out, I'll do a
bunch more functional testing against a few APs I have lying around.

Dan

> Jerone Young wrote:
> > I tried out the Leap functionality currently in CVS and at least at my
> > job it just did not work with our LEAP network. One thing is that on
> > our LEAP network there is a simple WEP key. It works if you use the
> > old Cisco Linux tools. But what is there in network manager now just
> > does not work. It seems to need a lot more testing and fix up.
> >
> > On 1/26/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> >   
> >> On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 01:56 -0500, Matthew Shannon wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Well that's good news, as I have been trying to get LEAP to work at
> >>> school for months. I don't know if it is my hardware or if I am just
> >>> stupid. I have tried using a Cisco Aironet 352 PCMCIA card with the
> >>> Cisco ACU program, but since it was written for kernel 2.2.x, it just
> >>> isn't going to work with 2.6 without being rewritten. I have had more
> >>> luck with my Proxim Orinoco Gold a/b/g combo card but even then all I
> >>> got was momentary association. It would associate long enough that if
> >>> I ran iwconfig back to back, it would be associated for one out of 4
> >>> tries. Not long enough to run wpa_supplicant.
> >>>       
> >> The airo driver only supports leap through private ioctls, not through
> >> standard mechanisms, so it's likely not going to work here.  The orinoco
> >> card might work, depending on the driver.
> >>
> >>     
> >>> How do I get the development stable version? What dependencies and
> >>> versions of said dependencies do I need? I think part of my problem
> >>> could be that most of the documentation I have found on the various
> >>> config files seem to need me to know a LOT about wireless technologies
> >>> in order to set them up. Not to say that it needs to be dumbed down or
> >>> anything, I just don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of the
> >>> technology right now.
> >>>
> >>> Oh, and you said you need to spin a release of 0.6.5, do you know when
> >>> that will be?
> >>>       
> >> Probably in the next week or two.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
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