Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:45:16 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing |
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Erik Andersen wrote: > On Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 12:43:57PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> Wireless Extensions has reached end-of-life, and so we only need to >> support what's out there in wide distribution. > > Hmm, so what is going to replace it? I was messing about with my > old powerbook G4 titanium, trying to make wpa_supplicant work > when I realized the airport/orinoco driver used for my powerbook > can't handle WPA since that apparently requires at least WE-18. > I started looking into what it would take to teach the orinoco > driver about WE>=18. But I suppose there is no point in my > looking further if WE is heading to the great bit-bucket in the > sky. > > Is 'Wireless Extensions The Next Generation' described and > documented somewhere? Or am I better off if I just give up and > move on to some other more realistic project? :-)
Look around for references to nl80211 / cfg80211, particularly on the netdev@vger.kernel.org list.
Jeff
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