Bug#376651: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#376651: wrong default wpasupplicant driver (uses wired isntead of wext)

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 05:26:40AM +0200, Jacobo221 wrote:
> init_wpa_supplicant() in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant should
> not default to "wired" when $IFACE isn't in /proc/net/wireless'
> contents because the first time the interface is set up after a boot
> $IFACE might not yet be in /proc/net/wireless since the wpasupplicant
> script is run from if-pre-up.d and, therefore, the interface has never
> yet been set up.

Which network driver is this? I'd like to report a bug about this. Why
shouldn't a driver not advertise that it handles a wireless device until
it is 'up'?

> The current result here is taht, when booting uo, the first time i set
> up the interface, it gets driver "wired". From then on, it gets "wext"
> (which is what should always be expected).

And that this behavior breaks tools like network-manager as well.

> The solution, of course, is to set "wpa-driver wext", but since the
> docs say "the default is wext", either the docs are fixed, or the
> script has to be slightly modified.

No, the solution is to fix the driver.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard