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

[Reinhard Tartler]

CC'ing the aironet mailing list. Matteo asks us debian wpa_supplicant
maintainers about WPA support for his airo card. Read the full context
here: http://bugs.debian.org/403301. Please maintain the CC on answers.

Matteo Croce <rootkit85 at yahoo.it> writes:

> Isn't being offline any harm?

Of course it is serious for you, but please note, that according to the
information you gave us, it looks like a configuration error or lack of
wpasupport in your wireless driver. Are you sure both your driver and
your firmware do 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

From these pages, it doesn't look to me like your driver offers the
necessary extensions for WPA.

The fact that wpa_supplicant segfaults instead of exiting gracefully is
indeed an important bug, the fact that your driver doesn't support wpa
isnt' a bug at all for wpa_supplicant, but a bug in your wireless
driver.

If you have further information about WPA support in the airo driver,
please let us know.


-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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