Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

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.
> 
> Is 'Wireless Extensions The Next Generation' described and
> documented somewhere?  Or am I better off if I just give up and
> move on to some other more realistic project?  :-)

Look around for references to nl80211 / cfg80211, particularly on the 
netdev@vger.kernel.org list.

	Jeff


P.S.  Your mailer is generating buggy Mail-Followup-To lines.