Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA

From: Alessandro Suardi
Date: Sat Sep 30 2006 - 16:35:42 EST


On 9/30/06, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:27:01PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>
> Good news, WPA association is back to work for me using
> wireless_tools.29.pre10 and wpa_supplicant-0.4.9 with
>
> 2.6.18-git11 vanilla
> 2.6.18-git11 with reverted wireless fixes
> 2.6.18-git13
>
> which appears to mean that backward compatibility of the
> new tools with older kernel features has also been tested :)
>
> Dave, do you want me to file a request for updated FC5 RPMs
> for wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant in bugzilla or is it
> - already happening
> - never going to happen
> ?

I'm not sure if we usually wait for a 'real' release, or if there's
precedent for us shipping pre's before, but filing a bug-report
is a good idea so that it doesn't go unnoticed when I eventually
push a 2.6.19 update to FC5-updates in a few months.

Dave


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208719
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208720

respectively filed for wpa_supplicant and wireless-tools.

Thanks, ciao,

--alessandro

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the first one is pride and the second one is love
all understandings must come by this way"

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