Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 21:09 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
reopen 372208
|retitle |372208 Orinoco and wpa_supplicant not working with WEP
thanks
Hi,
I have a bad feeling about the included patch and would like to drop it
for a few reasons:
1. I currently experience problems with WEP and madwifi (using wext
ioctl's), and have had difficulty debugging
well does it help if you remove the patch ?
That is hard to distinguish, this problem may be in the madwifi driver
wext implementation, or in the supplicant itself. Diverging from
mainstream makes asking them for support more difficult.
5. I don't want to spoil my debugging attempts with other developers
of madwifi (or wpa_supplicant) while this subtle hack is included
well but no one hinders you from building a local package w/o the patch.
This has the possibility to effect a wide variety of users. I'd prefer
if the Orinoco problem was discussed properly on the hostap mailing
lists before we continue to carry along a hack of a patch and cause new
problems for other people. I cannot do that well, because I don't have
Orinoco hardware that craps itself with the pristine wpa_supplicant and WEP.
The patch is still contained in the source package, but inactive via
debian/patches/00list.
Comments on how to best proceed welcome.
as w/o the patch wpasupplicant is rendered useless for orinoco users,
you should prove that patch is faulty.
It should be proven that the patch works absolutely correctly (without
disrupting other modules), and as such, it should be known to be worthy
of merging into upstream wpa_supplicant. I am not sure I can provide
those details, therefore I'd prefer to have the same problems as
upstream, and not different ones.
however I would suggest you to publicly ask on the lists why this patch
is not included (reasons...) and based on this decide to drop/keep
it/come up with a newer patch.
I can do that, however I am not a user of the Orinoco module, therefore
I can only speculate on what is really the problem.
Kel.
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