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On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 11:41 -0300, Daniel da Veiga wrote: |
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> > I've been struggling with network managing in my laptop for some time |
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> > now. There's no decent way to keep it on config files. I connect to a |
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> > LOT of completely different wired and wireless networks. |
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> > I'm using Gnome, but I have all KDE libraries as dependencies for some |
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> > stuff. The machine is an Asus EEE 701 with an Atheros card. I'm using |
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> > ndiswrapper trying to avoid patching the madwifi drivers, waiting for |
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> > the official commit. My first try was NetworkManager, beautiful tool, |
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> > allowed me to manage my wired and open wireless connections fine, but |
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> > once I need WPA for wireless at the University, it failed on me. It |
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> > seems it can't talk to wpa_supplicant the right way. One possible fix |
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> > would be downgrade to version 0.5.4 of wpa_supplicant, but its not in |
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> > portage anymore, so I quit. |
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> Where does it say that the NetworkManager needs a downgraded version of |
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> wpa_supplicant? The reason that I ask is that I use NetworkManager on |
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> my laptop and it's been great.. except for at work where we use |
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> Enterprise WPA or whatever it's called. I haven't been able to log in, |
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> but a workmate of mine installed a fresh copy of Hardy Heron and it |
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> worked the first time. I haven't really had the time/interest to figure |
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> out why it wasn't working on my Gentoo laptop. |
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-wireless-networking-41/ath0wireless-couldnt-connect-to-the-supplicant.-511815/ |
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But again, its one of the MANY threads, posts and questions about |
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NetworkManager and WPA around the web. The fact is, I found many |
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people with this problem, tried all their "solutions" but still no |
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game. I get the infamous "couldn't connect to the supplicant" syslog |
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error. Believe me, I spent a LOT of time trying to figure this out... |
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WICD had the "None" problem (must have something to do with the |
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"00:00:00:00:00" failed authentication in wpa_supplicant (wich is |
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something I must research too), that makes it annoying, but not |
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impossible to use it. |
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Any more suggestions? |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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