[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#474579: wpasupplicant: wpa interface extensions incompatible with wireless-tools interface extensions

[Chadinater]

I consider this a bug and not a complaint, because I don't think there 
should be a difference between calling iwconfig and wpa_supplicant 
on the command line and calling them using the interface stanza extensions.  
The get along great outside of the if-pre-up.d scripts.

Since there is a difference, I thought that there is some incompatiblity between
the two when they should actually work together.

Finally, no where does it say (in the docs perhaps), that using the 
wireless-* extensions will prevent a wpa_supplicant connections using the
wpa-* extensions.  Noting the incompatibity between the two stanza 
extensions would have saved me (and hopefully others) the hours I 
spent finding the incompatiblity.

Chad


----- Original Message ----
From: Kel Modderman <kel at otaku42.de>
To: pkg-wpa-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org; Chadinater <chadinater at yahoo.com>; 474579 at bugs.debian.org
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 6:25:50 AM
Subject: Re: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#474579: wpasupplicant: wpa interface extensions incompatible with wireless-tools interface extensions

> The Linux wireless gods seem to think that wireless-extensions was poorly
> designed, don't want to fix it up, and persue a new line of development.

> I'm not sure this package can change anything here, it seems this is more a
> complaint than a bug report. What do you want wpasupplicant package to do?

> Thanks, Kel.



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