Re: WPA status 2006-01-08

[Robert Love <rml novell com>]

On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 12:18 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:

> Note that while wpa_supplicant supports using driver-specific methods
> for WPA and other settings, we want to push all drivers towards
> conforming to the WEXT spec on this one.  That means support for
> SIOCSIWAUTH and SIOCSIWENCODEEXT.  We _may_ have to allow
> driver-specific support in the mean time, but I'd rather not do that if
> at all possible.  (for instance, atmel doesn't seem to work right now
> for normal WEP)

We are going to need to go through the various drivers and see how they
fair.  We are probably going to neeed driver-specific support.

	Robert Love