Re: Bugs everywhere!

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 02:20 +0100, Richie Ward wrote:
> So I am going to have to talk to the developers of the 2x00 project..
> I will see what they say :-)

I wouldn't mind knowing exactly which rt2500 driver Ubuntu is putting in
their kernel.  They appear to be using a pretty low bar to gate wireless
drivers...  I assume it's the old non-mac80211 driver, and that one
isn't very good WRT WEXT compliance.

Dan

> 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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