Re: Bugs everywhere!



On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 00:54 +0100, Richie Ward wrote:
> Is this thing under heavy development?

It's complex; the sources of bugs are normally interactions between
NetworkManager and the drivers.  Driver quality and consistency has been
steadily improving over the past 2 years or so, but it's the best it
could be.

> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/
> 
> Theres a huge list of bugs for this thing. The one that annoys me the
> most is one of mine:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/106874

That's a driver problem.  I can't control what drivers, and what
_quality_ of drivers, Ubuntu puts in their kernel.  The rt2500 driver
apparently doesn't support WE-19 and above, which is the standard Linux
method of configuring a card to support WPA.

You'll note the use iwpriv commands in that bug report.  If every driver
used iwpriv commands, there would be 30 different ways to configure a
card.  That's just insane.  So NetworkManager requires that a driver
support WE-19 and above to use WPA.  In any case, that's the requirement
to show WPA support in the GUI.

To connect successfully with WPA, the driver needs to work with
wpa_supplicant and the wpa_supplicant WEXT driver.  That means, of
course, that the driver again must support WE-19 and above for WPA.
wpa_supplicant is the standard Linux WPA supplicant.

Dan





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