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    SubjectRe: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA
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    On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:04:31AM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
    > On 9/29/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> wrote:
    > >>
    > >> [asuardi@sandman ~]$ rpm -q wireless-tools
    > >> wireless-tools-28-0.pre13.5.1
    > >
    > > That's too old, the cutoff is 27-pre15.
    >
    > Are you sure ? For how I read it, 28-0.pre13.5.1 is more recent
    > than 27-pre15, not older.

    Sorry, I'm mixing up my numbers.
    The cutoff for the ESSID fix is 28-pre15, so your version is
    just a little bit older. I'm mixing up with the iwpoint cutoff which
    was 27-pre25.

    > So I guess there's an actual bug that doesn't depend on the
    > wireless-tools. Or maybe it's wpa_supplicant that has to be
    > upgraded ?

    I don't have the start of the thread, so I don't know the
    exact failure mode. If you are using wpa_supplicant, it bypasses the
    wireless tools so it would have to be updated.
    Note that I've been pestering Jouni about the fact that he had
    to update wpa_supplicant for that since last May, when Jouni himself
    asked me to change the ESSID API. Ironic, isn't it ?
    The epitest.fi site seems unfortunately down...

    > > On the other hand, FC6, which is in beta, contains already the
    > >proper version of the tools. I have been monitoring the various distro
    > >in the last few months before sending those WE-21 patches, and all
    > >major distro have WT-28 in the pipeline.
    >
    > Even if so, wireless-tools would be the only package I have to
    > build out of the FC5 distribution to keep up with the latest -git
    > snapshot of the Torvalds kernel... I'm not especially troubled
    > with this anyway. Perhaps you could push the Fedora folks to
    > be a bit more up-to-date with wireless-tools in their current
    > main version ?

    The FC people are busy.

    > Still listening on how to further research the issue... many thanks
    > in the meantime, ciao,
    >
    > --alessandro

    Jean
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