Bug#365014: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#365014: wpasupplicant: Patch for supporting madwifi-old and madwifi-ng in parallel

[Gregor Jasny]

On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:34, Kel Modderman wrote:
> madwifi supports wext as of r1499.

I've tried vanilla 2.6.16.11 + madwifi-ng r1531. The suppplicant is neither 
working in wext mode nor in madwifi(ng). What revision of -ng are you using 
with wext mode?

At the moment I'm using madwifi-ng 0.svnr1500.20060412 from 
http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/experimental with the madwifi(ng)  
supplicant driver. You stated that wext support is working since 1499. For me 
r1500 works only with the madwifi(ng) driver not with wext.

I've attached the log of r1531 wext mode. Some notes about my setup:
00:0f:66:d3:90:50 is my wrt54gs accss point
Ankh-Morpork is my hidden ssid
I'm using WPA.

It seems that the supplicant does not associate because the ssid is empty.

> I had the pleasure of committing the contributed patch to madwifi svn.

I think I'll have the pleasure to debug the beast with you ;)

> I am also debian madwifi maintainer, and believe that madwifi-ng
> includes should only be included when madwifi-ng is in the distribution.
> Currently madwifi-ng sits in the NEW queue, when it enters experimental
> I'd like to completely drop support for madwifi-old and include only
> madwifi-ng headers as a patch to the experimental branch of the
> wpasupplicant package.

I just felt, that I should give something back to Debian. Because -ng is the 
only working driver on my Intel Mac Mini I thougt that others will have the 
same problem.

Is there a madwifi-ng repository that I could test against?

Thanks,
Gregor
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