Re: mac80211 and iwlwifi (was Re: d80211 and iwlwifi)

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 10:18 -0800, Tom London wrote:
> On 3/3/07, John W. Linville <linville redhat com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 09:56:25PM +0000, Mike Cohler wrote:
> > > I hope this is not a repeat question but is it planned to have d80211
> > > and iwlwifi in the F7 release?
> >
> > I have test kernels w/ iwlwifi here:
> >
> >         http://people.redhat.com/linville/kernels/fc7/
> >
> > If you have ipw3945 hardware, please give them a try.  You will need
> > to get the firmware from here:
> >
> >         http://intellinuxwireless.org
> >
> > YMMV...I haven't been able to make it work yet on my Sony Vaio...
> >
> > Send the bug reports (and patches!) to me...thanks!
> >
> > John
> > --
> > John W. Linville
> > linville redhat com
> 
> Does not work for me on Thinkpad X60 using 'stock Rawhide' NetworkManager.
> 
> Association fails both with WEP and 'no key'.

NM uses wpa_supplicant for all connections in the background.  If your
wpa_supplicant works with mac80211 (or, really, d80211) then it will
likely work with NetworkManager.

Dan