F7 and WLAN on Sony

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Thu May 31 23:25:31 UTC 2007


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Steven Stern wrote:
> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:45 -0500, Steven Stern wrote:
>>   
>>> I've enabled  Network Manager via chkconfig and rebooted. The system 
>>> sees the built-in wireless but it will not connect to my network secured 
>>> with WPA2.  It spins for a while then gives up.  What's the trick to this?
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>> You should disable network and enable NetworkManager,
>> NetWorkManagerDispatcher and of this I am not sure but there is the
>> nm-applet that may have to be enabled of it may as before work
>> automatically when NetworkManager finds a wlan.
>>   
> 
> Done.  But... I can see the list of available access points and 
> /var/log/messages shows wpa_supplicant being fired up to send handle the
> handshake.  But then it just seems to die.
> 

Replying to myself:

I can connect to my home network that uses a 128bit hex key.  The
problem seems to be in the wpa authentication rather than in the
wireless connection itself.

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  Steve
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