Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

[James Ketrenos]

Stefan Rompf wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Am Sonntag 05 März 2006 09:34 schrieb Andrew Morton:
>
>  
>
>>That check was changed from
>>
>>	"If this STA doesn't use WPA and that AP does, then bale"
>>
>>into
>>
>>	"If this STA does use WPA and that AP doesn't then bale".
>>
>>So a theory would be that your AP isn't filling in those WPA length fields.
>>I see no reason why we should permit that to disable WEP?
>>    
>>
>
>problem is that wpa_supplicant needs to set wpa_enabled unconditionally, so 
>with this  change it hasn't been possible to connect to non-WPA networks 
>using WPA supplicant. For the discussion on the IPW list, see 
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=114004412300002&r=1&w=2 .
>
>1.0.12 fixes this by removing the check entirely. James: Does it makes sense 
>for you to push 1.1.0 out to netdev soon, or better just the fix for this?
>  
>
We'll gather up all the patches that have accumulated out of tree that
are not already in John's tree and get them sent to netdev today.

Thanks,
James

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