I had a major question, as I’m running on an Acer Aspire AOA150 netbook. Other notebook, netbook, or laptop owners I imagine are asking as well if Haiku can support WPA and WPA2 networks. The card is recognized–and it will pick up unsecured ones, I imagine, but no secured networks. This is seriously a major problem for Haiku!
Therefore, while Haiku can’t now, what can I or we do to get it to support these wireless networking configuration types? The options listed I can do if feasible:
a) Is compiling wpa_supplicant or wireless networking utilities possible?
b) Is importing nm_applet and similar packages from Linux platforms possible?
Writing drivers, I’m glad, is not the question. The card is recognized–in fact, Haiku will pick up 2 WPA-secured networks. The question here is how to connect to these networks. Apparently, waiting for Axel to support these networks sounds wise. Yes–unencrypted networks work out nicely.
setwep is not applicable, because most networks described are WPA1 alphanumerically protected. Therefore, WEP keys are not the issue here. When WPA is supported well, then I think we’ll see a bunch of new people use Haiku–until then, I think Linux is being used in this respect.
Will there be a good, graphical network manager, like in Linux?
I wish to see what networks are available, what type of encryption they use, and signal strenght.
What version must I download to see this network manager?
Alpha 2 does not have it… Or, at least I haven’t found it.
Do you have a screenshot? I don’t have my Acer Aspire One here, and my other computers have unsupportet network cards. I will be thankfull for a screenshot
Will there be a good, graphical network manager, like in Linux?
I wish to see what networks are available, what type of encryption they use, and signal strenght.
Mellissia
With NetworkStatus, there’s already the beginning, see the user guide page. Available networks and signal strength are already there, encryption is still missing because the most important WPA isn’t working yet. Since nice encryption support requires some kind of graphical key-management, the feature completion of NetworkStatus will take some more time, I expect.
The card is recognized–in fact, Haiku will pick up 2 WPA-secured networks. The question here is how to connect to these networks. Apparently, waiting for Axel to support these networks sounds wise. Yes–unencrypted networks work out nicely.