Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750769AbWJEShs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:37:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750776AbWJEShs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:37:48 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:4624 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750769AbWJEShs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:37:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 14:36:51 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: andersen@codepoet.org, Jeff Garzik , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Message-ID: <20061005183645.GD18408@tuxdriver.com> References: <20061003180543.GD23912@tuxdriver.com> <4522A9BE.9000805@garzik.org> <20061003183849.GA17635@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <4522B311.7070905@garzik.org> <20061003214038.GE23912@tuxdriver.com> <20061003231648.GB26351@thunk.org> <1159948179.2817.26.camel@ux156> <20061005163513.GC6510@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <4525364D.1000409@garzik.org> <20061005174241.GA23632@codepoet.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061005174241.GA23632@codepoet.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1162 Lines: 29 On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 11:42:41AM -0600, Erik Andersen wrote: > On Thu Oct 05, 2006 at 12:43:57PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Wireless Extensions has reached end-of-life, and so we only need to > > support what's out there in wide distribution. > > Hmm, so what is going to replace it? I was messing about with my > old powerbook G4 titanium, trying to make wpa_supplicant work > when I realized the airport/orinoco driver used for my powerbook > can't handle WPA since that apparently requires at least WE-18. > I started looking into what it would take to teach the orinoco > driver about WE>=18. But I suppose there is no point in my > looking further if WE is heading to the great bit-bucket in the > sky. Driver fixes to support later WE versions are still welcome. Information on supporting WPA for that driver will still be needed for cfg80211. Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/