Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

From: Lee Revell
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 12:44:50 EST


On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 09:21 +0000, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> we've been just through an email thread where it has been
> determined that wpa_supplicant 0.4.9 (I would assume that
> 0.5.5 is also okay) and wireless-tools from Jean's latest
> tarball are necessary to work with the recent wireless
> extensions v21 that have been merged in.
>
> What wireless-tools are you using ?

This must be considered a kernel bug - it's not allowed to break
userspace compatibility in a stable series.

Lee

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