Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Mon, 05 Dec 2005 11:28:10 -0500 |
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On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:17 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > >>>Ahh OK .. I don't use it, so wouldn't have been affected. That's one > >>>userspace interface broken during the series, does anyone have any more? > > Ah.. another one, that I was just reminded of again > by the umpteenth person posting that their wireless > no longer is WPA capable after upgrading from 2.6.12. > > Of course, the known solution for that issue is to > upgrade to the recently "fixed" latest wpa_supplicant > daemon in userspace, since the old one no longer works. > > Things like this are all too regular an occurance.
The distro should have solved this problem by making sure that the kernel upgrade depends on a new wpa_supplicant package. Don't they bother to test this stuff before they ship it?!?
Lee
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