wpa and fc6/7

Stephen John Smoogen smooge at gmail.com
Mon Dec 4 21:31:42 UTC 2006


On 12/4/06, Warren Togami <wtogami at redhat.com> wrote:
> Mike Cohler wrote:
> > Can anyone tell me what the status of wpa_supplicant development is?
> > I tried to change over from WEP to WPA in fc6 and hit a brick wall.
> >
> >> From postings all over the net it seems that the vast majority of
> > people who try to get wpa going come across problems and struggle to
> > get anything working properly. The support for different hardware
> > seems erratic and largely undocumented.
> >
> > It appears to me that there is a need for some development as well as
> > some decent documentation to help people with this issue.
> >
> > What do others think?
> >
>
> I've personally been using WPA with NetworkManager with ipw2945 for the
> past several months with FC6 devel.  It has been very stable for me.
>

I had problems with it for the first 2 weeks after the release (WPA
would not work with my ipw3945 etc) . but what is currently on my
system is working great. [It was kind of interesting.. it started
working the day before Thanksgiving and has worked since then.]



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