Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:36:51 -0400 | From | "John W. Linville" <> | Subject | Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing |
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On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:42:41AM -0600, 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.
Driver fixes to support later WE versions are still welcome. Information on supporting WPA for that driver will still be needed for cfg80211.
Thanks,
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