Re: Problem with bridges and wireless NIC's

[Bjarke Istrup Pedersen]

2010/3/1 Jouni Malinen <j@xxxxx>:
> On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:40:14PM +0100, Bjarke Istrup Pedersen wrote:
>> Okay, so the best thing to do, is to advise people to reverse the
>> patch if the need 0.6.x, or use 0.7.x - right?
>
> I don't think I would recommend people to reverse the commit that made
> kernel reject invalid wlan0 mode in the bridge in general. It should be
> possible to reorder network configuration to work with it and if really
> not, reverting that change is reasonable only for a device that works as
> an AP and uses bridging. Alternatively, whoever needs hostapd 0.6.x for
> whatever reason could obviously also backport the hostapd patch for
> bridge setup.
>
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Okay, I have recommended people to upgrade to 0.7.1 and configure
hostapd to do the adding to the bridge :-)
Thanks for helping.

Btw. - is there a timeframe for when 0.7.x might go stable? (the WPS
stuff is really interresting) :-)
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