[pkg-wpa-devel] wpa_gui deletes id_str

Kel Modderman kelrin at tpg.com.au
Thu Aug 3 06:22:35 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 02 August 2006 23:55, Kel Modderman wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 23:08, Felix Homann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > as some of you might remember I like to use wpa_gui as a configuration
> > tool, I therefore set "update_config=1" in my wpa_supplicant.conf. It is
> > well known and documented  that comments are lost from
> > wpa_supplicant.conf when using this option and updating the config.
> >
> > Unfortunately, even "id_str=..." entries are lost after updating the
> > configuration via wpa_gui. Can this be fixed somehow?
>
> Everything can be fixed. Lets report this to Jouni Malinen, and allow him
> the opportunity to correct the behaviour. I am no C++ programmer, so I
> would have quite some difficulty doing it myself. Any help appreciated.
>

As you saw, Jouni fixed this problem already. The change was tiny so I've 
backported it to the current version. Can you please confirm or deny that it 
is fixed?

I built some i386 binaries:
	http://users.tpg.com.au/sigm/misc/pkg-wpa/binary-i386/

And the source snapshot has been updated too:
	http://users.tpg.com.au/sigm/misc/pkg-wpa/wpasupplicant_0.5.4-3.dsc

Thanks, Kel.



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