On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 12:18:03PM +0200, Patrick Ale wrote: > On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Toby Richmond <toby at puddlecottage.co.uk> > wrote: > > Hi > > > > I've got a similar problem opensolaris 2008.05... > > > > nwam will detect and connect to my home network when open or WEPped, but > > try as I might, I can't connect to a WPA network. I am using atheros (ath) > > driver and have installed wpa_supplicant - error that it can't open > > libssl.so.0.9.7 (I checked and have version 0.9.8a)... > > I tried following the instructions to use dladm - turned off nwadm - > > connect after creating a wpa key but just get an operation timeout... > > > > Can anyone help me out!? > > Other than saying you are right about NWAM not connecting to WPA/WPA2 > networks, I cant. I have the same problem with my RUM device. It works > fine with dladm, nwam only supports Open or WEP protected networks (in > the scroll bar menu these also are the only two options). When > selecting WEP and bluntly type in the WPA password to "trick" NWAM > wont work. I never reported this since I thought WPA was work in > progress under NWAM, cause I made the assumption NWAM uses wifitools > as backend...
This isn't entirely accurate. NWAM should work just fine with WPA; however, not all wireless drivers support it. Quaker or one of the other folks from the wireless team can give you an authoritative answer on which drivers do/do not support WPA. If you find that you can connect with WPA using dladm, but cannot with NWAM, that's a bug that we'd like to know about; nwamd uses libdladm, the same backend as dladm, so if one works, the other should as well. Could you enable nwam debugging and get a log of an attempt to connect using WPA? You can find notes on how to do that on the troubleshooting page: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nwam/phase0/troubleshooting/ Enabling debugging in described in step 6. Also, since you mentioned explicitly selecting a security mode, I assume you're connecting to a wlan which is not broadcasting? So you enter the name, and then get a separate dialog box to select the security mode? If so, I'm very surprised that you don't see all three options; do you need to scroll down, by any chance? -renee
