[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#597317: wpasupplicant: does not work with classic airport, probably same for all hermes chipsets

[Anton Ivanov]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.7
Severity: important

Hermes (at least as in Apple airport) does not support ap scan and "manual"
association. As a result at the default settings as used by most apps
(ap_scan=1) the connection is never established.

ap_scan=0 and 2 do not work either. It never loads any of the 
network sections parameters (WEP keys, ssid, etc) into the driver
so the driver does not perform automatic association. 

The driver/card itself is OK - it works fine with classic config using
wireless tools. However all fancy gui utilities - (k/g)networkmanager,
wicd, etc use wpasupplicant as default.

I have tested this with the default lenny (6.4), backports (6.10) and
a manual backport of latest from hostap (7-something). It is broken in 
all cases. 

This is using the wext driver as the original hermes one does not seem 
to be available from anywhere.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.6
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-bpo.5-powerpc
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.110            add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                   2.7-18lenny4     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.2.1-5+lenny1   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libpcsclite1            1.4.102-1+lenny3 Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline5            5.2-3.1          GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8             0.9.8g-15+lenny8 SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                3.2-20           Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl      <none>     (no description available)
pn  wpagui                        <none>     (no description available)

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