From: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm2
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 12:42:20 +0100
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Hi,

Am Sonntag 05 M?rz 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?

Stefan
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