From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>,
Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: mac80211 does not support WPA when used with wext
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:57:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175363875.9349.11.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200703311837.27990.mb@bu3sch.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-31 17:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-31 9:36 mac80211 does not support WPA when used with wext dragoran
2007-03-31 10:00 ` Johannes Berg
2007-03-31 10:11 ` dragoran
2007-03-31 11:19 ` dragoran
2007-03-31 16:37 ` Michael Buesch
2007-03-31 16:39 ` Michael Buesch
2007-03-31 17:57 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2007-03-31 17:48 ` Dan Williams
2007-03-31 17:59 ` Jouni Malinen
2007-03-31 18:09 ` Larry Finger
2007-03-31 19:03 ` Michael Wu
[not found] ` <f6ca9fed0703311256m1b14ec35p836a62de532dd804@mail.gmail.com>
2007-03-31 21:00 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-01 0:50 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-02 3:50 ` WPA does not connect to bcm43xx-mac80211 when using NetworkManager Larry Finger
2007-04-02 4:12 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-03 14:26 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-02 5:26 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-01 8:18 ` mac80211 does not support WPA when used with wext Johannes Berg
[not found] ` <f6ca9fed0704081445u5536e596m4ca4caeb44f7f87@mail.gmail.com>
2007-04-08 21:54 ` Michael Wu
[not found] ` <f6ca9fed0704081527j641a4ecat44151e107cab7342@mail.gmail.com>
2007-04-10 7:13 ` dragoran
2007-04-10 12:25 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-10 14:34 ` dragoran dragoran
2007-04-10 14:39 ` Larry Finger
2007-04-10 14:44 ` dragoran dragoran
2007-04-01 0:55 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-01 1:21 ` Michael Wu
2007-04-01 4:51 ` Dan Williams
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