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

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 10:48 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 06:19:08PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
>  
> > If these patches are for the development version of wpa_supplicant, 
> > should they not be merged into upstream CVS, so that next time I take a 
> > snapshot, there is no need to carry along a large patch series?
> 
> It seems to me that the patches are for 0.4.8.
> 
> > This is no defect, rather a  wishlist item, IMHO.
> 
> well, some of the patches makes wpa_supplicant work on some machines. So
> in some cases, they might be useful or even required.

well wpasupplicant is useless w/ orinoco w/o the wep-key-fix patch - if
you consider that wishlist...

> > >wpasupplicant is missing a number of patches which can be found at:
> > >http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/wpa_supplicant/
> > >
> > >for me personally most important is that one (which makes wep w/ orinoco
> > >		based cards work again):
> > >
> > >wpa_supplicant-wep-key-fix.patch
> > >  
> > 
> > Please provide a distinct bug report for that issue.
> 
> I remember something.. wait.
> I think this would be this bug:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/wpasupplicant/+bug/37396
> 
> But I'm not that sure.

yes exactly. it will fix that one. but i am not sure this is enough as I
also applied the two below.

> > >furthermore I applied:
> > >wpa_supplicant-assoc-timeout.patch
> > >wpa_supplicant-auth-fallback-v4.patch
> > >  
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> I'm a bit confused as well. Who wrote this patch? Who to contact him and
> have they already been submitted/discussed upstream?

that is how I found them, and well they are in FC<some number>

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2006-June/msg00002.html

Soeren.
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