[CentOS] Wifi wpa_supplicant with atheros successes or failures?

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at darkover.org
Thu Aug 10 05:37:48 UTC 2006


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On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 09:49:02PM -0400, Max H. wrote:
> IBM Thinkpad R40
> Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5211 802.11ab NIC
> (rev 01)
(...)
> I've done a bit of Googling the past few days as well. One link I follow
> it mentions about CentOS/RHEL not supporting wpa_supplicant in the
> current kernel, and that you'd have to recompile your kernel. Other
> threads I've read of successes, but usually not much detail is provided
> and it's done so through compiling the drivers and what not.
(...)

Maybe it is just me, but I was never able to get non-802.11g wireless
NICs to work with WPA.

I have been using WPA on some CentOS machines here (Intel IPW2200)
without any issues and without rebuilding the kernel.

[]s

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Rodrigo Barbosa
"Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur"
"Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)

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