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