Suse pro 9.2 and WPA? Experience?

Fraudulent · 11-23-2004, 12:59 PM

Has anyone tried using wireless with Suse 9.2pro?
I read somewhere that it has built in support for WPA-PSK. Anyone with experience? does it work well? Easy to set up?

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Fraudulent · 12-06-2004, 01:51 AM

Ok. Now I have my own experiences.
Easy to set up? no.
During install I was asked to configure my netgear (atheros) card and to my happiness there was a space to enter a WPA pre-shared key.
However, it did not work.
On a close inspection of the boot details I found a warning: wpa-supplicant not installed.
Are the suse-builders at Novell complete MORONS or simply mean? A simple note at installation time regarding this would have been helpful.

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eastsuse · 12-10-2004, 04:19 PM

I'm using the same atheros chip on SUSE 9.2. It works without wpa-psk but not with. I installed the wpa_supplicant package, but it still doesn't work. did anyone get this to work?

Fraudulent · 12-11-2004, 03:10 PM

yes I got it to work.
I run wpa_supplicant manually.

maybe there is something wrong the the ifup script for WPA?

SlackerLX · 12-11-2004, 03:34 PM

Ever since SuSe joined with Novell and that would be this year, product has become a den of bugs

Fraudulent · 12-11-2004, 03:49 PM

I don't know if I agree to that. I had my fair share of problems with Suse before Novell got involved. Besides, isn't it still the same team developing Suse?

SlackerLX · 12-11-2004, 04:19 PM

No. team changed. previous team stayed in Germany. You can still see unchanged site for Germans
http://www.suse.de

vladoportos · 01-10-2005, 12:31 PM

@Fraudulent: Could you tell me how do you run that wpa suppliacant because i also use suse 9.2 he find my wifi card normaly without ndiswrapper but wpa dont work there. So i download wpa supplicany 0.2.6 and i have to install it now but how what to write in .config ??? please help me if you know or any body.... better on icq:286765889

Fraudulent · 01-11-2005, 02:41 AM

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Originally posted by vladoportos
@Fraudulent: Could you tell me how do you run that wpa suppliacant because i also use suse 9.2 he find my wifi card normaly without ndiswrapper but wpa dont work there. So i download wpa supplicany 0.2.6 and i have to install it now but how what to write in .config ??? please help me if you know or any body.... better on icq:286765889

First: WPA supplicant is installed automatically during Suse 9.2 installation.

My problem is that for some reason it does not initialize during boot but I run it manually instead.

Once I know linux better (studying Linux now) I will be able to read the configuration of my setup and tell you why it does not work automatically.

vladoportos · 01-11-2005, 03:04 AM

Aha but how do you started it ? I dont know how to do it