[pkg-wpa-devel] 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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