On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 15:40 -0400, Darren Albers wrote: > On 9/23/06, colin williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm unable to connect to ap's in the nm-applet list. It shows the available > > ap's but it cannot connect to them. I believe that NetworkManager is having > > trouble setting the ssid, but when I manually use iwconfig wlan0 essid ssid > > it works. Does anybody have a fix?I am running ubuntu edgy. I had > > simlilar problems in dapper also, which is why I tried edgy. > > > > sudo ndiswrapper -v > > Password: > > utils Error: no version specified! > > driver version: 1.22 > > vermagic: 2.6.17-7-generic SMP mod_unload 586 REGPARM gcc-4.1 > > I think here is the problem: > # > NetworkManager: <information> wpa_supplicant(1717): 00:16:ce:5e:c9:66 > # > NetworkManager: <information> wpa_supplicant(1717): Driver does not > # > support WPA. > > I think this is a bug with the edgy package or possibly ndiswrapper > doesn't support WPA with your card, the Ubuntu maintainer used Robert > Love's wireless driver patch to support drivers that don't properly > support the latest Wireless Extensions. The older NDISWrapper was one > of those drivers, however I am pretty sure that the newer versions of > NDISWrapper support the latest WEXT so the patch should be changed to > not pass -Dndiswrapper when it detects a card using ndiswrapper.
I think versions 1.18 and higher of ndiswrapper support the WPA WEXT calls. Dan > You can also try using the Broadcom driver that came with Edgy, I have > heard that it works well for /some/ broadcom cards. > _______________________________________________ > 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
