Bug#403301: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#403301: wpasupplicant: segfaults with Cisco Aironet

[Matteo Croce]

Isn't being offline any harm?

Alle 22:49, domenica 17 dicembre 2006, hai scritto:
> severity 403301 important
> thanks
>
> Hi Matteo,
>
> Lowered severity, this does not meet grave bug criteria, IMHO. The package
> works fine with supported devices and did not cause you any harm.
>
> On Saturday 16 December 2006 11:50, Matteo Croce wrote:
> > Package: wpasupplicant
> > Version: 0.5.5-4
> > Severity: grave
> > Justification: renders package unusable
> >
> > What's wrong here?
> >
> > [~]$ sudo wpa_supplicant -Dwext -ieth0
> > -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation
> > not supported
> > WEXT auth param 7 value 0x1 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: Operation not supported
> > WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - Failed to initialize control interface
> > '/var/run/wpa_supplicant'. You may have another wpa_supplicant process
> > already running or the file was left by an unclean termination of
> > wpa_supplicant in which case you will need to manually remove this file
> > before starting wpa_supplicant again.
>
> Your device (its firmware) presumably does not support WPA.
>
> During some researching of these cisco aironet devices, I found a nice
> table of WPA support here:
> http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Computing/wirelessLinux.html
>
> Its features are also well described here:
> http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers
>.802.11b.html#Arlan802
>
> Thanks, Kel.

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