Package: network-manager
Version: 0.6.6-1
See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/211780
for more details. Oddly enough the patch _was_ in ubuntu though it's
actually my Debian desktop I need it for!
diff attached.
Adrian
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--- network-manager-0.6.6.orig/src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c
+++ network-manager-0.6.6/src/nm-device-802-11-wireless.c
@@ -2662,6 +2662,8 @@
const char * iface;
gboolean ask_user = FALSE;
GMainContext *ctx;
+ const char * wpa_driver;
+ const char * kernel_driver;
g_assert (ap);
@@ -2695,7 +2697,15 @@
nm_warning ("Activation (%s/wireless): couldn't start the supplicant.", iface);
goto out;
}
- if (!nm_supplicant_interface_init (self->priv->supplicant, iface, "wext"))
+ /* some kernel drivers require specific wpa_supplicant drivers */
+ kernel_driver = nm_device_get_driver (NM_DEVICE (self));
+ wpa_driver = "wext";
+ if (!strcmp (kernel_driver, "hostap_pci") ||
+ !strcmp (kernel_driver, "hostap_cs") ||
+ !strcmp (kernel_driver, "hostap_plx"))
+ wpa_driver = "hostap";
+
+ if (!nm_supplicant_interface_init (self->priv->supplicant, iface, wpa_driver))
{
nm_warning ("Activation (%s/wireless): couldn't connect to the supplicant.", iface);
goto out;
