hi darren... i'm trying to figure out the exact steps needed to get a wireless card ro work in my dell inspiron laptop.
if someone could tell me what/which card i need to get, and then provide exact/detailed steps on exactly what i need to do, i'd really appreciate it... i can pretty much get any card i need as long as it comes from fry's /best buy/compusa/etc... i'd prefer to not have to really recompile the RHEL 4 kernel.... thanks -bruce -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Darren Albers Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2006 5:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: WPA and madwifi Dan posted this recently: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- Patch the driver to support range->enc_capa like has been done for ipw2200 and ipw2100. Dan --- ./net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c.enccapa 2006-01-24 09:45:12.000000000 -0500 +++ ./net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c 2006-01-24 09:46:16.000000000 -0500 @@ -976,6 +976,9 @@ range->min_frag = 256; range->max_frag = 2346; + range->enc_capa = IW_ENC_CAPA_WPA | IW_ENC_CAPA_WPA2 | + IW_ENC_CAPA_CIPHER_TKIP | IW_ENC_CAPA_CIPHER_CCMP; + return 0; } ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------ I made that change and now NetworkManager knows that the card supports WPA but it doesn't seem to work. I think this is a Madwifi issue, it works fine with my Intel 2200 card with the latest driver... I think we are just out of luck until the Madwifi team gets things worked out with interaction with NetworkManager. On 2/19/06, Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked through the list archives, but I'm not quite sure what I'm > supposed to do to get these two working together. I'm using the latest > Fedora rawhide NetworkManager with the latest madwifi-ng. If I try to > connect to a WPA network (Linksys WRT54G set for WPA2 and TKIP+AES), > nm-applet tells me: > > Error connecting to wireless network > > The requested wireless network requires security capabilities > unsupported by your hardware. > > I couldn't tell for sure: am I supposed to start wpa_supplicant myself > or does NetworkManager do it? > > I can successfully disable NetworkManager, manually configure > wpa_supplicant, and bring up the interface, so I do know that madwifi-ng > and wpa_supplicant are working. > > Am I doing something wrong, or is it not quite working? If it isn't > working, what can I do to help get it working? > -- > Chris Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services > I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble. > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
