[pkg-wpa-devel] Re: Don't know how to debug, please help.

[Kel Modderman]

B. Zhang wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 21:38 +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
>   
>>> Now it works with 0.4.8-4 after adding "wpa-driver wext"
>>> in /etc/network/interfaces:
>>>       
>> Thanks for the feedback! That is exactly what I suspected. Some modules 
>> are not being detected in /proc/net/wireless (although ipw* and madwifi 
>> are not having this problem so far).
>>
>>     
> So if I don't give explicitly the driver wext, wpa_supplicant may not
> use wext as default driver. This means that "No driver is given, wext is
> used by default." in mode 2 of /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes
> is not correct. 
>
>   

It is correct, and it expects that the wifi driver creates appropriate 
files in /proc/net/wireless as per standard.

You are using _very_ experimental drivers.

However, do you suggest I remove the check for wireless extensions?

Kel.