madwifi-ng is now wext compliant

Kel Modderman kelrin at tpg.com.au
Wed Apr 12 11:06:33 UTC 2006


Hi,

Recently, I had the pleasure of committing a contributed patch to 
madwifi-ng svn (http://madwifi.org/changeset/1499).

madwifi-ng is now wext >18 compliant, therefore, it can now use the 
"wext" ioctl's with wpa_supplicant and network-manager etc.

This means two things:

   1. I am going to be really keen to prepare and push a madwifi-ng
      package into an "official" experimental archive  :-)
   2. The driver "autodetection" code I added to wpasupplicants ifupdown
      script recently, will have to be altered when madwifi-ng replaces
      the existing madwifi-old based packages in the debian archive. For
      now, people that choose to use madwifi-ng with wpasupplicant will
      have to explicitly choose to use wext ioctl's rather than private
      madwifi ones by setting "wpa-driver wext" in their interfaces file.

Thanks, Kel.



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