Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:56956 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753722AbXCaRyZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:54:25 -0400 Subject: Re: mac80211 does not support WPA when used with wext From: Dan Williams To: Michael Buesch Cc: dragoran , Johannes Berg , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200703311837.27990.mb@bu3sch.de> References: <460E2B8C.4030002@gmail.com> <1175335211.23438.45.camel@johannes.berg> <460E43D6.1060501@gmail.com> <200703311837.27990.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:57:55 -0400 Message-Id: <1175363875.9349.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 18:37 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Saturday 31 March 2007 13:19, dragoran wrote: > > Johannes Berg wrote: > > > On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 11:36 +0200, dragoran wrote: > > > > > >> Hello > > >> While testing the iwlwifi driver I noticed that the mac80211 does > > >> provide a wext interface but does not support wpa with it. > > >> > > > > > > You must have done something wrong, it works well. > > > > > > > > same also happens with the rt2x00 drivers.... > > it seems that I am not doing something wrong but that you are using a > > ieee80211 based driver.... > > I think you can trust Johannes, the author of the mac80211 configuratrion > interface, in this matter. ;) > mac80211 _does_ work with WPA. For sure. 100%. > You are doing something wrong. No, he's not, see my previous post. mac80211 doesn't use the right WE-18 and later IWEVGENIE event to report IEs in scan results. Like every other in-kernel driver/stack out there besides mac80211. Dan