I attempted to use wpa_supplicant together with the hostap driver for WPA encryption at home. Starting the wpa-supplicant init script before inserting the PCMCIA card did not work - wpa_supplicant exited immediately. Starting it manually was no better, apparently the -w switch is broken. I got it up and running by modifying the pcmcia wireless script to start and stop wpa_supplicant, as documented in the README file for wpa_supplicant. Then it worked perfectly. I finally gave up WPA for two reasons. First, the other laptop uses a prism54 card, and it does not (yet) support wpa_supplicant. Second, the laptops need to be able to access non-encrypted networks, and even if I added the SSID of the nonencrypted network to the wpa_supplicant configuration file, a running wpa_supplicant prevented me from accessing the network. I run Gentoo stable, so I do not have the newest and fanciest baselayout with the new wireless scripts. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
The current init script will be removed once >=baselayout-1.11.8 (which among other things integrates wpa_supplicant support into the Gentoo network subsystem) goes ARCH.
OK, this makes sense. I am awaiting that to happen anyway, before I start using WPA for real, since I got the impression that I will then be able to use WPA on some nets, and nothing on unknown nets, and I cannot do that with the current baselayout. I guess this means that this bug can be closed (LATER? WONTFIX? what is the correct thing to do?) /Jakob
Yes. Closing as LATER - just wanted to make sure you were ok with that for now.
