[pkg-wpa-devel] problems with 0.5.5-1

[Kel Modderman]

On Saturday 23 September 2006 00:06, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried wpasupplicant 0.5.5-1 from Debian unstable and got 2 problems:
> * the wireless interface is not renamed by udev anymore

How is this related to wpasupplicant?

> * network-manager seems to think that the wireless interface is a wired one
> Downgrading back to 0.5.4-1 fixes the problem.

How is this related to wpasupplicant? Is network-manager really the one with a 
problem here?

>
> Some other people have seen the same problems, and it seems that
> rmmod+modprobe ipw2200 makes the interface works as usual. Is this
> problem known and supposed to be fixed soon? Or should I fill a RC bug
> in the Debian BTS so that 0.5.5-1 does not enter testing in the next
> days? This seems so huge to me that I'd rather have your opinion before
> filling a RC bug report.

You should first provide evidence that wpasupplicant is doing something it 
should not be before filing a bug of RC severity.

>
> FYI, I am using ipw2200 1.2.0 on Debian/testing with 2.6.18 on a
> Thinkpad T43.

Thanks, Kel.