Re: [gentoo-user] Wiress Question...

[BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>]

True it is. I have a simple 128-bit WEP setup presently - I use to have a system that couldn't handle WPA so I didn't set it up for WPA; I think I could now, but I don't have the time quite at the moment. Any how...wpa_supplicant didn't like the key (see below); thus my original e-mail.

network={
        ssid="my-network-here"
        key_mgmt=NONE
        wep_key0=hexkeyhere
        priority=1
        auth_alg=SHARED
}

I did try wicd, which seemed to be working for the most part, but still having a little trouble...I restarted the router and it still didn't want to connect...so still working on it. wicd is nice though.

TIA,

Ben


----- Original Message ----
From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 10:47:53 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wiress Question...

BRM wrote:
> I'll have to look into that one.
> 
> I started playing around with WPA Supplicant; and got it working
> withmy wireless NIC; however, it doesn't like my AP configuration.
> So I was thinking of changing the configuration to make it work
> better; but this might give me what I need.

wpa_supplicant is _very_ configurable, so I would guess that it can handle your AP configuration, but you just haven't configured it enough!  Not that this is slack on your part - it took me a while to figure out all the options I needed for some of my AP's too...

-- Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."