Re: at76c503 and open1x?

Hi,

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Andrew Leahy wrote:

> I'm using a Belkin F5D6050 on a Fedora system which has the at76c503
> driver.  Our school is about ready to implement a campus-wide wireless
> network using an 802.1x authentication scheme (with dynamic WEP).  As
> far as I know, the only software available for Linux in such an
> environment is from open1x.org.  According to the README.wireless_cards
> file in the latest xsupplicant distribution, the "default driver [for
> atmel cards] resets when new WEP keys are applied.  There is a patch
> included with XSupplicant (in the drivers directory) that fixes this
> problem."
>
> My question is whether the at76c503 driver also suffers from this
> problem.  Will I be able to use the latest xsupplicant release out of
> the box?  Will the patch included with xsupplicant fix the problem?

IMHO the comment refers to either the atmel driver in the kernel (for
PCMCIA) or the SF one (unlikely), not the Berlios, which currently resets
when the WEP key is changed.

802.1x / WPA is on the agenda for the Berlios driver - but I'm still
struggling to understand it.

/Jörg