Re: ipw2100 vs WPA

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Cedric Blancher wrote:
> 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.
>
>

Hmm... It was the WPA howto I found from the ipw2100 website that said
- -Dipw... I guess it just hasn't been updated yet... It was kinda
old... Version 1.0.5 of the ipw2100 drivers I think...

Thanks for your help.


H

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