Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:29165 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752617AbXCaJgQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 05:36:16 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1044719uga for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <460E2B8C.4030002@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:36:12 +0200 From: dragoran MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: mac80211 does not support WPA when used with wext Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hello While testing the iwlwifi driver I noticed that the mac80211 does provide a wext interface but does not support wpa with it. Why? Is this a known bug/limitation. And if yes any plans to fix it? Fedora 7 uses mac80211 by default which results into networkmanager and (unpatched)wpa_supplicant is useless for people who use WPA/WPA2. P.S: please CC me