On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > Progress... > > 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). Not sure if this helps but might be worthwhile reading the forum thread at: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id=12881&forum=40