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

[Matteo Croce]

From: http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.18

    [PATCH] wireless/airo: minimal WPA awareness
    
    Running Linux 2.6.17-rc3-mm1 which has this patch included I get this
    interesting message:
    airo(eth0): WPA unsupported (only firmware versions 5.30.17 and greater
    support WPA.  Detected 5.30.17)
    [...]
    [PATCH] wireless/airo: minimal WPA awareness
    
    airo cards with firmware versions of 5.30.17 and higher support WPA.
    This patch recognizes WPA-capable firmware versions and adds support for
    retrieving the WPA and RSN information elements from the card's scan
    results.  The JOB and FLAG fields are now independent, since there was
    no space left in the FLAG field for FLAG_WPA_CAPABLE.

So my driver really doesn't supports WPA? is just WPA aware?

Alle 09:33, martedì 19 dicembre 2006, Reinhard Tartler ha scritto:
> 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.driv
> >>ers.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.

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