[Pkg-wpa-devel] Fwd: wpa_supplicant / NetworkManager

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 07:30:35PM -0500, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> From: Michael Biebl <biebl at teco.edu>
> Subject: wpa_supplicant / NetworkManager
> Message-ID: <44050099.3050700 at teco.edu>
> To: Kyle McMartin <kyle at debian.org>
> Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 03:02:01 +0100
> 
> maybe giskard (Riccardo Setti) contacted you already about
> NetworkManager [1]. The problem is, that NM must be able to send AP_SCAN
> commands over the control socket, support for that has been added to the
> latest development release 0.5.1. Without that NM can not work.
> So I guess giskard asked you to upload a 0.5.1 version to experimental.
> If that is too much hassle for you, there is also a small patch that can
> be applied to the current stable version and which is also sufficient.
> As you will have to release a 0.4.8 version anyway I included this patch
> (30_ctrl_iface_ap_scan.dpatch) and prepared a new release 0.4.8-1. I
> attached you the resulting diff.gz. All you would have to do is to
> update the changelog.
> You would do us (the Debian Utopia Team) a big favor if you could upload
> this version 0.4.8-1 to unstable.
> 

My plan with wpasupplicant was to wait for wpasupplicant 0.4.7 to
transition to testing, and then work on 0.4.8. In paralell, I intended
to prepare an upload of 0.5.1 to experimental, with better integration
to ifupdown, based on Kels work. (Besides, Kel, do you still intend to
upload it? Did I miss your commit?)

I will check the patch and see if we can include it to an 0.4.8 upload
to unstable. Thanks for the patch!


Gruesse,
	Reinhard