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

[Kel Modderman]

On Wednesday 27 September 2006 22:31, Brice Goglin wrote:
> Kel Modderman wrote:
> > 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?
>
> While my mail was being moderated on your mailing list, I have been
> debugging more. The problem actually seems to be related to udev. I did
> not upgrade udev and wpasupplicant at the same time, but for some reason
> the problem appeared only after wpasupplicant's upgrade. The udev
> problem is actually not 100% reproducible, so I guess I was lucky when I
> downgraded wpasupplicant and got it to work with the latest udev.
>
> I don't know why wpasupplicant/network-manager got broken by this "udev
> not renaming anymore" (since I don't have any interface-name specific
> configuration) and I don't know why network-manager would show the
> wireless interface as a "wired" one. But after tweaking the udev rule to
> workaround the possible udev problem, everything works fine with
> wpasupplicant 0.5.5.

Thanks for clarifying. I've seen no such problems myself (or heard of) and 
could not conceive that wpasupplicant could cause what you described.

>
> > You should first provide evidence that wpasupplicant is doing something
> > it should not be before filing a bug of RC severity.
>
> That's why I contacted you without filing a bug first :)
>
> Sorry for the noise. In case you're interested by the udev problem
> causing wpasupplicant/network-manager to not work anymore, see
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=389250

Cool. Good to know.

Thanks, Kel.