[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#776338: Bug#776338: wpa: wpasupplicant-udeb missing from kfreebsd installation media

[Michael Gilbert]

control: reopen -1
control: severity -1 wishlist
control: block -1 by 776346

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 8:47 PM, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> I'm closing this bug, as your patch doesn't -and can't- work (anytime
> soon). Please don't inflate the bug severity, this would be a request
> for a new feature, not a bug.

Hi,

I entirely agree with your viewpoint, although I'm not sure where the
idea of the rush for jessie came from?  It's obviously far too late
for that.  Plus with kfreebsd not being official anymore, I couldn't
imaging the release team spending even a second thinking about this.

> The next step is d-i, or technically netcfg, itself, which only
> provides support for scanning via wext (wireless extension), a
> deprecated kernel-userspace API of the linux kernel. As kfreebsd,
> to the best of my knowledge, doesn't emulate this API to
> userspace, netcfg would need to gain support for the native
> kfreebsd wlan interfaces - and ideally for linux' new nl80211 API
> as well. The same goes for actually managing the interface from
> within netcfg. If I remember correctly, Kel Modderman did
> originally suggest an alternative way to scan via wpasupplicant
> (and thereby to abstract (most of, at least for scanning) the
> wlan interface handling from netcfg), rather than making it
> depend on the deprecated wext Linux API, but netcfg chose a
> different way.

I don't think the netcfg changes need to be a blocker for this change.
Having the wpa_supplicant executable available in d-i for manually
bringing up the network (for those that know how to do that) will be a
huge step itself.

Best wishes,
Mike