Somebody in the thread at some point said:
wpa_supppicant, but it does not work with this wireless card! I
understand that rt2x00 is under heavy development now. However the
rt73 driver does support WPA encryption natively so it should in
principle be possible to get a connection to a WPA encrypted AP with a
little extra work.
Ah take care, there is an ugly situation with the current kernels and
rt2571-based devices. Both the correct rt73usb driver and the bogus
rt2500usb driver are loaded, and it doesn't work by default since the
wrong driver gets in first. Add this to /etc/modprobe.conf
install rt2500usb /bin/true
and reboot and retry the rt73usb situation (from the version supplied
with the Fedora kernel if you have been cooking your own). I had good
luck with this and wpa_supplicant in the last two weeks.
Has anyone managed to achieve this ? If so how? Are there details on
a
web page somewhere?
b) Laptop 3 is a Samsung Q35 running FC6 and has an IPW3945 wireless
card in it. With the recent kernels and the iwl3945 driver it has been
possible to get this driver working and connected with a stable WEP
encrypted link to the AP.
In this machine the FC6 version of wpa_supplicant is 0.4.9-1 and seems
not to support the iwl3945 driver yet!
It should work fine, I have one of these laptops, on F7 admittedly. Use
-Dwext on wpa_supplicant.
Why not grab the F7 wpa_supplicant RPM by hand and see what kind of
dependencies it would need if you installed it on the FC6 system.
-Andy