From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: hce <webmail.hce@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch for linux wireless extension
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:58:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204639101.7183.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1204626369.3917.96.camel@johannes.berg>
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:26 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> Jim,
>
> > I am running a wifi device on kernel 2.6.11 and wireless extension
> > version 17 for an ARM processor, it works fine with an open AP and
> > wpa_supplicant 0.5.8.
>
> That's ancient.
>
> > Now I would like to support WEP and WPA. I know
> > the best is to upgrade to latest kernel, but I am not in the position
> > to do it as various reasons.
>
> Upgrade anyway.
>
> > An alternative as people suggested is to
> > do a wireless extension patch which supports WEP and WPA on kernel
> > 2.6.11. Any advice if it is feasible and where can I find the wireless
> > extension patch for WEP and WPA on kernel 2.6.11 please?
>
> Hahaha. We'll you'll have to *make* that patch and invest a
> *significant* amount of time into that.
Yeah; it's not just the defines and whatnot in wireless.h; you probably
also want to update wireless-tools too, then you have to update your
driver as well. It's not hugely complex, but it's going to be a lot of
boring work :)
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-04 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-04 3:01 Patch for linux wireless extension hce
2008-03-04 10:26 ` Johannes Berg
2008-03-04 13:58 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2008-03-06 10:37 ` hce
2008-03-06 14:00 ` Dan Williams
2008-03-07 3:00 ` hce
2008-03-07 12:11 ` Dan Williams
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