Return-path: Received: from mu-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.134.187]:45580 "EHLO mu-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752696AbXCaKLQ (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Mar 2007 06:11:16 -0400 Received: by mu-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id g7so762875muf for ; Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:11:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <460E33BF.2040508@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 12:11:11 +0200 From: dragoran MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Johannes Berg CC: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mac80211 does not support WPA when used with wext References: <460E2B8C.4030002@gmail.com> <1175335211.23438.45.camel@johannes.berg> In-Reply-To: <1175335211.23438.45.camel@johannes.berg> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. > > ok simple test case for me: boot F7 livecd on a laptop with a ipw3945 card. the iwlwifi driver got loaded.... try to selected WPA from the nm menu ... wait there aren't any :( ... test with ipw3945 (ieee80211 based) wpa options are back ;) so can you please tell me which driver you used and how you verifed that it works? > johannes >