Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:15:37 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing |
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On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:58:24 -0400 Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:50 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote: > > On Mon, 02 Okt 2006, Norbert Preining wrote: > > > > The main features of the latest beta is WE-21 support (long/short > > > > retry, power saving level, modulation), enhanced command line parser > > > > in iwconfig, scanning options, more WPA support and more footprint > > > > reduction tricks > > > > > > Bingo. I build the new 29-pre10 and everything is working. > > > > Sorry, that was over-optimistic. still same behaviour as with the Debian > > v28 version. > > > > The last character is cut of from wpa_supplicant. I have to set the > > essid by hadn with > > "real-essid " > > mark the space at the end! > > You have a mismatch between your wireless-tools, your kernel, and/or > wpa_supplicant. WE-21 uses the _real_ ssid length rather than the > kludge of hacking off the last byte used previously. Please ensure that > your tools, driver, and kernel are using WE-21. > 'cat /proc/net/wireless' should tell you what your kernel is using. > Getting the driver WE is a bit harder and you may have to look at the > source.
Jean, John: the amount of trouble which this change is causing is quite high considering that we're not even at -rc1 yet. It's going to get worse.
It doesn't sound like it'll be too hard to arrange for the kernel to continue to work correctly with old userspace? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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