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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Connection not established with Realtek RTL8188CUS based USB device (EDIMAX)
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:26:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51C07C29.6070602@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1371542085.7163.15.camel@mattotaupa>

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




  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 15:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-15 19:57 Connection not established with Realtek RTL8188CUS based USB device (EDIMAX) Paul Menzel
2013-06-15 21:08 ` Larry Finger
2013-06-17 21:38   ` Paul Menzel
2013-06-17 22:19     ` Larry Finger
2013-06-18  7:54       ` Paul Menzel
2013-06-18 15:26         ` Larry Finger [this message]
2013-06-17 22:03   ` Paul Menzel
2013-06-19 22:36   ` Paul Menzel
2013-07-19  9:47     ` Paul Menzel

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