Re: FC9 NetworkManager & WPA

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 12:00 -0400, Devon Harding wrote:
> 
> 
> 2008/8/23 Anne Wilson <cannewilson googlemail com>
>         On Saturday 23 August 2008 16:26:06 Devon Harding wrote:
>         > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 11:44 PM, Brian Powell
>         <bpowell01 gmail com> wrote:
>         > > Devon,
>         > >
>         > > Make sure you have the wpa_supplicant package installed.
>         > >
>         >
>         
>         > The wpa_supplicant package is installed (and the update).
>          When I select my
>         > wireless from the drop down list, it still asks for a WEP
>         key instead of a
>         > WPA key.
>         >
>         > Do I need the wpa_supplicant_gui package too?
>         >
>         
>         I see the same behaviour on my EeePC.  It does no harm, but
>         it's b******
>         annoying.  (I presume that, like me, you can use the drop-down
>         arrow to
>         select WPA then manually give it the passphrase?)
>         
>         Anne
>         
> 
> The thing is, WPA is not one of the choices.  I only have the
> following:
> 
> WEP 128-bit Passphrase
> WEP 40/128-bit Hexadecimal
> WEP 40/128-bit ASCII
> LEAP
> Dynamic WEP (802.1x)
Left click on the applet and chose connect to other netwok. There you
should get a choice to use WPA.
> 
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