FC5 issue with ndiswrapper
Roger Grosswiler
roger at gwch.net
Fri Mar 24 19:16:47 UTC 2006
Am Donnerstag, den 23.03.2006, 20:20 -0500 schrieb Michael Wiktowy:
>
>
> 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. :[
>
>
>
> /Mike
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i run NetworkManager with ndiswrapper without problem. Yes, it supports
WPA. There is no need to start wpa_supplicant manually. Just do "service
NetworkManager start" and "service NetworkManagerDispatcher start" you
will get the icon then. Double click it and add a new connection. you
will then also be asked for encryption and all the rest.
HTH
Roger
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