FC5 issue with ndiswrapper

[kevin.j.lisciotti at jpmchase.com]

I have the same problems with NM. I have the Netgear WG511T as well and 
installed the madwifi rpms for FC5 from ATRPMS. The card is recognized, I 
can use NM to scan and identify wireless networks, but cannot connect to 
any including my own. I have tried no encryption, WEP and WPA all without 
success.

Not sure if this is a NM problem or madwifi problem, but I know how you 
feel :)

Sorry for top posting but I have Lotus Notes at work ugggh!






"Michael Wiktowy" <michael.wiktowy at gmail.com>
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On 3/23/06, Josh Coffman <josh_coffman at yahoo.com> wrote:

Has anyone gotten NetworkManager or the network gui
applet to recognize wlan0 usin ndiswrapper?

I can manage wlan0 fine in cli, but not the nice gui
tools. So I think its not an ndiswrapper of
wireless-tools problem. 

I was trying to use the madwifi package with my NetGear 511T and 
NetworkManager acted quite squirrelly.  It works well enough with Ubuntu 
Breezy but not WPA. I was hoping that FC5 would bring me joy but not 
quite. I got to the point where NM would unreliably list the available APs 
but wouldn't connect to any of them (including unencrypted SSIDs) but that 
could have been signal strength issues. There was one bit of weirdness in 
that both a wlan0 and an ath0 was created when I tried to start just one.

Is NM supposed to have WPA support built-in yet? I know that is on the 
roadmap but I don't know if it made it into FC5. I tried to start the 
wpa_supplicant service via system-config-services but it wouldn't run. So 
I ran it as a daemon with all the commandline switches in place but 
couldn't tell if it was working properly. There was no error output bu no 
success either and no GUI to set the key ... just iwconfig. :[

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