Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA

From: Jean Tourrilhes
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 13:12:55 EST


On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:27:01PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>
> Good news, WPA association is back to work for me using
> wireless_tools.29.pre10 and wpa_supplicant-0.4.9 with
>
> 2.6.18-git11 vanilla
> 2.6.18-git11 with reverted wireless fixes
> 2.6.18-git13
>
> which appears to mean that backward compatibility of the
> new tools with older kernel features has also been tested :)

We can't really test everything, but at least we try to do the
basics. The strong versioning of the API does help with regards to
this kind of change.

> Dave, do you want me to file a request for updated FC5 RPMs
> for wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant in bugzilla or is it
> - already happening
> - never going to happen
> ?

I believe we are actually pretty close to FC6, which should
have all the right bits...

> Thanks, ciao,
>
> --alessandro

Ciao...

Jean
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