Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-20 Thread Gonsolo
What type of wifi card? It may be that driver issues prevent the wifi card from completing the WPA Ad-Hoc network. WPA Ad-Hoc is more complex than WEP ad-hoc and there have been kernel driver issues with that configuration in the past. What kernel version are you using, what wifi hardware, an

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 18:04 +0100, Gonsolo wrote: > >> I wanted to inform you that I was able to share my connection with > WEP64 but > >> not WPA/WPA2. > >> > >> I am connecting my Ipod Touch 2nd generation to my notebook (ath5k based > >> WLAN card, Ubuntu Karmic) which is connected to the i

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-19 Thread Dan Williams
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 18:58 +0200, Quintin Beukes wrote: > The type of encryption shouldn't make a difference to sharing ability. > It's 2 completely differently networking layers. Actually it does; you can't connect to a WPA2-only Ad-Hoc network with the current wpa_supplicant and Linux kernel dr

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-18 Thread John Mahoney
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 6:02 AM, Quintin Beukes wrote: > > It should not have to be ad-hoc. The wifi card is acting in ap(Access > > Point) mode. > > How does this work? > Internally or how to configure? To configure: 1. Create a new wireless connection with the add button 2. enter ssid 3. Kee

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-18 Thread José Queiroz
2010/1/18 Marc Herbert : > Gonsolo a écrit : >> I think my WG511 card would allow  WPA > > Note that it is not because a card works as a WPA station that it works > as an WPA Access Point. > I agree. I remember that when I was testing a rt61-based card, I had problems when tried to use WPA with a

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-18 Thread Marc Herbert
Gonsolo a écrit : > I think my WG511 card would allow WPA Note that it is not because a card works as a WPA station that it works as an WPA Access Point. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/l

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-18 Thread Quintin Beukes
> It should not have to be ad-hoc.  The wifi card is acting in ap(Access > Point) mode. How does this work? Q ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-17 Thread Gonsolo
Am 17.01.2010 22:09, schrieb John Mahoney: On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Quintin Beukes wrote: Are you sure the network is even established? Can you ping the other host? You mentioned "ad-hoc". I've noticed NetworkManager has problems establishing AdHoc networks using WPA. For the network

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-17 Thread John Mahoney
On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 1:28 PM, Quintin Beukes wrote: > Are you sure the network is even established? Can you ping the other host? > > You mentioned "ad-hoc". I've noticed NetworkManager has problems > establishing AdHoc networks using WPA. For the network doesn't > establish in the first place,

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-17 Thread Quintin Beukes
Are you sure the network is even established? Can you ping the other host? You mentioned "ad-hoc". I've noticed NetworkManager has problems establishing AdHoc networks using WPA. For the network doesn't establish in the first place, so sharing won't work. Maybe this is your problem as well? try

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-17 Thread Gonsolo
Am 17.01.2010 18:04, schrieb Marc Luethi: On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 17:37 +0100, Gonsolo wrote: It works with WEP64 encryption but not with WPA/WPA2 encryption. If your notebook sets up an "ad hoc" WiFi network, you can't use WPA or WPA2. AFAIK, the "ad hoc" WiFi mode is still limited to WEP enc

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-17 Thread Gonsolo
>> I wanted to inform you that I was able to share my connection with WEP64 but >> not WPA/WPA2. >> >> I am connecting my Ipod Touch 2nd generation to my notebook (ath5k based >> WLAN card, Ubuntu Karmic) which is connected to the internet via UMTS >> (Huawei E220, "option" kernel module). >> It

Re: Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-17 Thread Quintin Beukes
The type of encryption shouldn't make a difference to sharing ability. It's 2 completely differently networking layers. Though, how are you sharing it? Are you building custom firewall rules, or using some automated sharing via a configuration option? Quintin Beukes On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 6:3

Connection sharing with WPA/WPA2

2010-01-17 Thread Gonsolo
Hi! I wanted to inform you that I was able to share my connection with WEP64 but not WPA/WPA2. I am connecting my Ipod Touch 2nd generation to my notebook (ath5k based WLAN card, Ubuntu Karmic) which is connected to the internet via UMTS (Huawei E220, "option" kernel module). It works with