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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] can't get wpa_supplicant to work for wpa or wep!
From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
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On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 20:45 -0500, Fabio A Correa wrote:
> Hello Iain,
> 
> > and conf.d/net reads
> > 
> > wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dndiswrapper"
> 
> Instead of this, you should use
> 
> wpa_supplicant_wlan0="-Dwext"
> 
> the Linux wireless extensions (wext) take care of WPA and friends, while working along with
> ndiswrapper. Ndiswrapper cannot manage encryption by itself.

ah, so simple!  Thanks, it works now :)

cya,
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