wpa_supplicant - What's happening?

[sling-shot]

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-1pclos2011.i586.rpm
(With --oldpackage it's a forced downgrade + networkmanager is not removed)

With the recent .iso as base, I have not had any problem with wireless. Although at first it reports that connection failed, within few seconds connection automagically comes up.

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Thank you very much for the rpm -Uvh --oldpackage trick
Might be useful in future.

[DeBaas]

For now it's ideal, I can connect/disconnect both USB sticks and or network cable.
All three are connecting within secconds now (One at a time)

[eor2004]

Today I tried to connect my desktop wireless to my home network (updated PASS)
Standard this box is wired connected to the net, but I need to demo on saturday..... wireless.
Both Ralink, 54g and 150n, a nogo.
First tried TerryN's solution, all SSID's vissible but no connection.
Next installed conform this thread:
rpm -Uvh --oldpackage wpa_supplicant-0.7.3-1pclos2011.i586.rpm
(With --oldpackage it's a forced downgrade + networkmanager is not removed)
Problem solved.

For checking I installed the 1.0-3 version again and rebooted.
The system came up connected.
After a manual disconnect I could not login again
So back to the 0.7.3-1, succes.

Tested with both USB sticks:
Ralink 54M.USB......
Ralink 802.11 n WLAN

As side effect I tried ndiswrapper, but always greated with, can not find ndiswrapper interface.

Go to PCC (Pclinuxos control center), Network & Internet, Setup a network interface, wireless wi-fi, next---> ta-da! use a windows driver with ndiswrapper...

[DeBaas]

can not find ndiswrapper interface

[eor2004]

Hi DeBaas, you're right, the "ndisgtk" interface of ndiswrapper is nowhere to be found on synaptic, I'm wondering why's is not already included on repository?

[TerryN]

ndiswrapper was not built into our 3.2 kernels (it was in the 2.6 kernels)
There is a dkms-ndiswrapper package in the Testing section of the repo which would provide the ndiswrapper module but I'm not sure what it's status is.

Terry.