Re: WPA problem on FC5

Tom Kelly wrote:
> 
> Erik Slagter wrote:
> 
>>> Note that NetworkManager (which works great with WEP) doesn't
>>> work with WPA, and a quick look using iwconfig suggests that
>>> the keys are getting wiped in that case too.  I'm
>>> still looking into that.
>> NetworkManager does work with WPA and seems to actually work better than
>>  hacking all the init scripts.
> 
> Sorry, I wasn't clear.  What I meant was that it wasn't
> working for me.  I've also figured that out - it needed a more
> recent version of wpa_supplicant.  I was running 0.4.x which
> doesn't implement the AP_SCAN command (it is only in the 0.5.x
> series).  I upgraded to 0.5.x and NetworkManager is now
> working with WPA, although I did find a bug.  If you
> have BOOTPROTO=dhcp explicitly in the ifcfg-xxx file,
> NetworkManager will not use DHCP - there is a test with
> the sense of the comparison wrong.  When I get a few
> minutes I'll test a fix and send it to the NetworkManager
> folks.

I should be arrested for impersonating a developer.  I mis-read
the code - it's fine.  And it seems to be working now (with
wpa_supplicant 0.5.4).

Tom

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