On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 05:27:20PM -0000, jms wrote: > Have you tried to connect with wpasupplicant using ps3 driver? I couldn't > connect with linux-ports kernel 2.6.25-2 with wpa_supplicant option "-Dps3", > error message was "Unsupported driver 'ps3'". > I found this (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463852) > > "The WEXT driver should work correctly with the PS3 Gelic wireless driver as > of > 2.6.27 kernel and wpa_supplicant 0.6.4, both of which ship with rawhide. The > "ps3" wpa_supplicant driver is deprecated as it was used before the kernel had > WEXT support for IW_ENC_CAPA_4WAY_HANDSHAKE. Please let me know if the WEXT > driver doesn't work by reopening this bug, and then we'll try to pin down > where > the problem is." >
yes, HW specific wpasupplicant drivers are really a problem and we should use wext nowadays. If there are still drivers that dont work with wext it really is time to fix those. > So I tried next with kernel from Geoffs git (2.6.28-rc2) using option > "-Dwext" and ps3 connected succesfully to WPA enabled AP. > NM always uses -Dwext in intrepid. - Alexander -- PS3: NetworkManager cannot connect to WPA/WPA2 wireless networks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/289982 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
