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Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:26:33 -0500
From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On 06/18/2013 02:54 AM, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Three more questions regarding this patch.
>
> 1. Could you add `CC: stable@vger.kernel.org` to the patch so it gets
> backported to the stable Linux kernel releases.

I thought I had done that. In fact, the patch was Cc'd to stable, but I missed 
the entry in the commit message. I have written to Stable to see what caqn be done.

> 2. Does this fix a regression or did it never work with WEP/WPA(1)
> networks before?

It does fix a regression, but I have no idea when it happened.

> 3. If wpa_supplicant only prints WPA to `/var/log/syslog`, can I be sure
> this is *no* WPA2 network? Because I always thought this is a WPA2
> network.

The data in an "iwlist scan" will state the version of WPA in use. If it is 
WPA2, you get a line with

IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1

For WPA1, it is

IE: WPA Version 1

Larry