Re: WPA status 2006-01-08

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 10:58 +0100, Nikolaus Filus wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> On Sunday 08 January 2006 22:48, Dan Williams wrote:
> > *) Your driver probably doesn't support WPA quite enough; you'll need a
> > driver that does WEXT-18 or higher.  This means that it needs to set
> > the enc_capa bits on return from the SIOCGIWRANGE call, which only
> > hostap seems to do right now.
> >
> > The attached patch works for ipw2100, but only because it can already
> > do WPA.  It was simply not telling NM that it could.  Other drivers may
> > need substantial changes to work with WEXT-18's enhanced encryption
> > API. Drivers that _may_ work with few changes: ipw2100, ipw2200, atmel,
> > prism54.  Drivers that need lots of fixup: orinoco, airo, bcm43xx.
> 
> 
> as a ipw2200 user may I forward this to ipw-devel list, or are you working 
> somehow together with intel (or other) driver guys?!

I'll forward the patch to both ipw and kernel (netdev) devel lists.

Dan