Connection to wireless network - wpa

[rozelak at volny.cz]

Hallo again,

sorry for troubeling you again, I have two more questions. When I tried
to connect to unencrypted wireless, everything seemed to be OK. However,
I was not able to connect to WPA encrypted net. The first question is,
if WPA-related setting is supported by knetworkmanager applet (knm).

On 'snapshot1', in atachment, there is info provided by NetworkManager
(NM) about the networks, I tried to re-connect to 'eduroam' which is
WPA encrypted (NM showed it in Encryption protocol, as shown on the
snapshot).

However, when I tried to connect the network (just by clicking on it),
I was not able to choose WPA and set parameters for it - see 'snapshot2'
in atachment. I suppose, that NM tells to knm about WPA, and knm should
allow to set all parameters for wpa_supplicant. NM will then start the
wpa_supplicant with parameters set to allow the connection running.
Is it right? May there be another problem with configuration?



Second question is - is it correct that NM continues with detection of
wireless networks even when they are disabled in knm? I have wireless
disabled by default in knm applet, but popup windows saying "net XY
diappeared" are still appearing. I just want to know if it is correct
behaviour, as I read that scanning is quite power consuming. Or is it
a bug when NM does not understand "disable wireless" requirement?


I am sorry, but I have no experience with encrypted wireless networking,
so the question may be quite stupid. Therefore, I would like to understand
the way of knm and NM work.



Just for sure:

My system is gentoo 2007.0 on IBM ThinkPad T43 laptop with:

kNM version:      0.1 (compiled manually, downloaded from
http://en.opensuse.org/Projects/KNetworkManager)
NM version:        0.6.5
HAL version:       0.5.7.1-r5
DBUS version:    1.0.2-r2
kernel version:   2.6.20-gentoo-r8 (gcc version 3.4.6 PREEMPT)
network card:    eth: Broadcom Gigabit (10/100/1000), wifi: ipw2200


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I am very sorry, I was not able to send snapshots, the message body exceeded
a limit of 40 KB - they have 63kB packed in tar.bz2. I will send them
to your personal mails, if you want to.


Thank you very much,
Dan