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From: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
To: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 10:11:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061002171147.GC14535@bougret.hpl.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a4c581d0609300527m1654f2cha56517e1c85f4606@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:27:01PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> 
> Good news, WPA association is back to work for me using
> wireless_tools.29.pre10 and wpa_supplicant-0.4.9 with
> 
> 2.6.18-git11 vanilla
> 2.6.18-git11 with reverted wireless fixes
> 2.6.18-git13
> 
> which appears to mean that backward compatibility of the
> new tools with older kernel features has also been tested :)

	We can't really test everything, but at least we try to do the
basics. The strong versioning of the API does help with regards to
this kind of change.

> Dave, do you want me to file a request for updated FC5 RPMs
> for wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant in bugzilla or is it
>  - already happening
>  - never going to happen
> ?

	I believe we are actually pretty close to FC6, which should
have all the right bits...

> Thanks, ciao,
> 
> --alessandro

	Ciao...

	Jean

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-02 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-29 19:25 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-29 20:29 ` John W. Linville
2006-09-29 20:40   ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-29 21:27     ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-29 22:04       ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-29 22:24         ` Dave Jones
2006-09-29 23:18           ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-29 22:43         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-09-29 22:52           ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-30 12:27             ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-09-30 18:37               ` Dave Jones
2006-09-30 20:35                 ` Alessandro Suardi
2006-10-02 17:11               ` Jean Tourrilhes [this message]
2006-10-01 19:08         ` Jouni Malinen
2006-09-30 19:38       ` wireless abi breakage (was Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA) Pavel Machek
2006-10-01  5:23         ` Pekka Enberg
2006-10-02 17:08         ` Jean Tourrilhes
2006-10-05 12:40           ` Pavel Machek

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