Hello,
I was just wondering is there is any plan of including linux-wlan-ng
into the 2.6 kernel. Does someone know about that ? If not, does
someone know why ?
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On Sun, 2004-04-11 at 06:37, Gaël Le Mignot wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was just wondering is there is any plan of including linux-wlan-ng
> into the 2.6 kernel. Does someone know about that ? If not, does
> someone know why ?
After a quick googling:
http://www.advogato.org/person/scandal/
According to this link, the wlan-ng drivers suffer a similar fate as
several other wireless drivers (e.g. HostAP) as they allow for
driver-based (as opposed to firmware-based) WEP encryption and
decryption.
Fortunately, the recent inclusion of the ARC4 module (by yours truly) in
the crypto API will allow these wireless drivers to use this
driver-based WEP and still be included in the kernel. The Michael MIC
cipher was also recently included by HostAP to be used with TKIP.
I have CC'ed this to the linux-wlan guys in case they're not aware of
this development.
Regards,
Jon Oberheide
[email protected]
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:37:03PM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I was just wondering is there is any plan of including linux-wlan-ng
> into the 2.6 kernel. Does someone know about that ? If not, does
> someone know why ?
The authors have never submitted it? Or wanted to?
greg k-h
Greg KH wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:37:03PM +0200, Ga?l Le Mignot wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I was just wondering is there is any plan of including linux-wlan-ng
>>into the 2.6 kernel. Does someone know about that ? If not, does
>>someone know why ?
>
>
> The authors have never submitted it? Or wanted to?
Never submitted AFAIK, but regardless...
There is a central problem of multiple 802.11 stacks that I very much
want to avoid. linux-wlan-ng, HostAP, madwifi, and one or two others.
I had hoped that HostAP would be submitted, and that could form the
basis of a common 802.11 stack, but I haven't heard anything about that
in many weeks.
Jeff
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 05:05:23PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> I had hoped that HostAP would be submitted, and that could form the
> basis of a common 802.11 stack, but I haven't heard anything about that
> in many weeks.
It will be.. WPA2 distracted me from this preparation, but I will try to
get back to cleaning up the Host AP driver for 2.6. Actually, I might
consider submitting it first without CCMP (AES-counter with CBC-MAC),
because that is the part that is likely to take most time to convert for
crypto API and this can be easily added separately.
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