Re: Patch for linux wireless extension

[Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 21:37 +1100, hce wrote:
> On 3/5/08, Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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
> 
> I've just upgrade wireless extension version 18 which supports WPA (Is
> it for WEP as well?), with replaced two files of version 18 wireless.h
> and wireless.c in the kernel 2.6.11. Please correct me if I missed
> other source files in the kernel.
> 
> The wireless-tools we are using come from different sources, the
> iwconfig was from busybox 1.3 and wpa_supplicant 0.5.8 was compiled to
> our firmware. The initial test for WEP set up was not good, but I was
> told, the wireless extension vresion 18 only supports WPA not WEP,
> please advice.

Incorrect.  WE-18 _added_ support for WPA ioctls but did not remove
support for WEP.  You'll just have to debug stuff and find out what's
going wrong.

dan