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From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: bcm43xx driver unstable behaviour (and linux wireless is junk
	btw)
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:02:03 -0400
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On Sun, 2006-09-24 at 16:13 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > prism54 fullmac, right?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> > Try using -Dwext; the prism54 wpa_supplicant driver is a dead-end and I
> > added WE-19 commands to it a bit ago anyway.  Oddly enough, I couldn't
> > seem to get the driver to work reliably for me using straight WEP
> > either, let alone WPA.  It's pretty unmaintained at the moment.
> 
> Ok, well, I tried with wext but iirc, I got rejected ioctls' from
> wpa_supplicant. I'll try again later. Thanks.

Ok, the changes appear to be in Linville's wireless-2.6 git tree, but
not yet in the netdev git tree.

Dan