Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:15:37 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>,
       "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>,
       Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>, hostap@shmoo.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing
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On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:58:24 -0400
Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 18:50 +0200, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > On Mon, 02 Okt 2006, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > > > The main features of the latest beta is WE-21 support (long/short
> > > > retry, power saving level, modulation), enhanced command line parser
> > > > in iwconfig, scanning options, more WPA support and more footprint
> > > > reduction tricks
> > > 
> > > Bingo. I build the new 29-pre10 and everything is working.
> > 
> > Sorry, that was over-optimistic. still same behaviour as with the Debian
> > v28 version.
> > 
> > The last character is cut of from wpa_supplicant. I have to set the
> > essid by hadn with
> > 	"real-essid "
> > mark the space at the end!
> 
> You have a mismatch between your wireless-tools, your kernel, and/or
> wpa_supplicant.  WE-21 uses the _real_ ssid length rather than the
> kludge of hacking off the last byte used previously.  Please ensure that
> your tools, driver, and kernel are using WE-21.
> 'cat /proc/net/wireless' should tell you what your kernel is using.
> Getting the driver WE is a bit harder and you may have to look at the
> source.

Jean, John: the amount of trouble which this change is causing is quite
high considering that we're not even at -rc1 yet.  It's going to get worse.

It doesn't sound like it'll be too hard to arrange for the kernel to
continue to work correctly with old userspace?
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