F7 and wireless and broadcom -- looking for feedback
Andy Green
andy at warmcat.com
Sun Aug 19 20:03:28 UTC 2007
Somebody in the thread at some point said:
>> FWIW I had good luck with wpa_supplicant whenever I used it, it's
>> not to hard to set up either on the APs I tried it with.
>
> ah, good point. from what i see, system-config-network only lets me
> configure the WEP key, is that right? this means that i might have to
> break down and recommend starting NetworkManager[Dispatcher] after
> all, which allows WPA configuration. or do the configuration manually
> with "iwconfig". or try wpa_supplicant, which i've never used but i'm
> guessing it can't be that hard.
FWIW I just tried NetworkManager with my WPA network for the first time
in a while and it did a great job on iwl3945 from kernel
2.6.23-0.74.rc2.git1.fc8. This is also mac80211-based so I would
definitely try it.
I started the NetworkManager service and ran nm-tool as my normal user.
Very nice! It did not overwrite my old
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf either.
BTW this just flew by
''Just in case you missed the details, the latest set of changes to b43
queued by Michael will require
a new version of fwcutter, now called b43-fwcutter, and a new extraction
of your firmware. ...''
http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118755225116482&w=2
-Andy
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