Bug#372208: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#372208: missing patches from wpasupplicant

[Kel Modderman]

reopen 372208
|retitle |372208 Orinoco and wpa_supplicant not working with WEP
thanks

Hi,

I have a bad feeling about the included patch and would like to drop it 
for a few reasons:

   1. I currently experience problems with WEP and madwifi (using wext
      ioctl's), and have had difficulty debugging
   2. This patch has not been merged upstream, its been around long
      enough for that (i suspect its not mergable)
   3. We made little effort to discuss this patch with upstream or its
      authour (Dan Williams), and that is mostly my fault
   4. Diverging from upstream like this is _never_ a good thing in the
      long term
   5. I don't want to spoil my debugging attempts with other developers
      of madwifi (or wpa_supplicant) while this subtle hack is included


The patch is still contained in the source package, but inactive via 
debian/patches/00list.

Comments on how to best proceed welcome.

Thanks, Kel.