Re: Bugs everywhere!

["Richie Ward" <richies gmail com>]

So I am going to have to talk to the developers of the 2x00 project..
I will see what they say :-)

On 4/16/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> 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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Thanks, Richie Ward