reassign 439896 ndiswrapper-source thanks Hi Frank,
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:47:08 pm Frank Denissen wrote: > I have a Dell Inspiron with Dell Wireless 1390. Access to my wireless > router works fine without encryption or with WEP. Only WPA does not work > under Linux (ndiswrapper + windows driver). WPA works fine under > Windows, using the same version of the driver. This is not a bug of wpasupplicant. See below for why. > $ /sbin/wpa_supplicant -w -Dndiswrapper -iwlan0 > -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd > > Initializing interface 'wlan0' conf > '/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf' driver 'ndiswrapper' <snip> > SIOCGIWRANGE: WE(compiled)=22 WE(source)=18 enc_capa=0xf > capabilities: key_mgmt 0xf enc 0xf > WEXT: Operstate: linkmode=1, operstate=5 > Own MAC address: 00:19:7d:3a:17:eb > Driver does not support WPA. This is the punchline. ndiswrapper doesn't think your windows driver supports WPA, and reports that to wpa_supplicant. Maybe yry a different windows driver? Personally, I find the native bcm43xx module to be quite okay, ymmv of course. Thanks, Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]