On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 14:52 +0000, Paul F. Johnson wrote:
Hi,
Today I downloaded the SRPM for NetworkManager-0.6.0-2 and removed the special-case-madwifi.patch and built the binary. This version of NM can connect to my madwifi card. The patch is trying to work around a WPA problem in the madwifi drivers. My question is has the fix for WPA broken WEP?
It certainly looks like...
Hmm, you did try the Fedora version of that exact package before getting rid of the patch, right? I had the same problem for a while and tried to solve it in the same way, by rebuilding without the patch which improved things but was still unstable (wadwifi, currently using madwifi-old driver since madwifi-ng was refusing to do anything for me for a while) but with 0.6.0-2 everything works fine again (sometimes the first association attempt on boot still fails but trying again gives me a perfect connection). There was a note in the changelog for the 0.6.0-2 version that wpa_supplicant wasn't used for the non-wpa scanning any longer, that seems like a significant change which might fix things.
/Per