Re: ipw2100 vs WPA

Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.ipw2100.devel
Organization Cartel Securite
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Le dimanche 20 août 2006 à 15:28 +0100, Hamish a écrit :
> > -Dwext ?
> Hot damn! The generic one works... 

;)

> OK... probably a stupid question that's known by all here, but why does Linux 
> Wireless Extensions (Generic) work, when specifying ipw (WHich wpa_supplicant 
> is for ipw2100/ipw2200 drivers) explicitly (Or nothing) doesn't?

Because people would like all drivers move to a unified 802.11 stack and
rely on Wireless Extensions for everything, including WPA/WPA2, instead
of each one relying one a specific, sometimes unstable, interface.

As for documentation, I don't know. Intel drivers moved to Wext from
quite a time now, it's been discussed on this mailing list.


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