Progress... Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:30 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > >> This is a new Centos 5.1 install on a HP nc2400 (that use to run XP). >> Completely clean install; blew away the XP partitions... >> >> After applying all the updates, and configuring for the rpmforge repo, I >> used yumex to install dkms and the dkms-ipw3945, ipw3945-firmware, and >> ipw3945d rpms. >> >> lsmod|grep ipw shows: >> >> ipw3945 180391 1 >> ieeee80211 33417 1 ipw3945 >> >> and dmesg)grep ipw shows: >> >> well a bunch of lines about the card including one with the Radio >> Frequency Kill Swithc is On >> >> > > Check to see if the physical switch is turned on. As long as the > system thinks the Kill Switch is on it won't show up in Network > Manager. [Having spent an hour debugging this a couple of months ago.] > Basically it comes down to the first question of support: Is it > plugged in? At the moment the computer does not think so. There is NO physical switch. XP had some way of enabling the radio. So I went into the bios and played around a bit. Tried an option and now NetworkManager sees the card! But when I enter my WPA passphrase, I keep going back to being asked for the passphrase :( I noticed that NetworkManager is using eth1 for the the wireless interface, not wifi0 that I put into modprobe.conf (alias wifi0 ipw3945). I tried to use wpa_supplicant deamon as I do on my nc4010 that has an atheros pci card. man wpa_supplicant lists ipw as a valid device, but when I supply this, i get Unsupported driver 'ipw' SO why does it not like my passphrase that works just fine with my nc4010 and its ahteros card? Granted theweak passphrase I am using fails password checkers, but still..... Or how to use wpa_supplicant instead of NetworkManager (which is pretty cool, where is its config files).