Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 09:23:33 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Eitarou Kamo <e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5-stable wpa_supplicant (Re: ral/wpa_supplicant drops after successful WPA negotiation?) Message-ID: <20060303172333.GB9482@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <44086EF7.2080700@trio.plala.or.jp> References: <43F9E6B4.3040309@derooij.org> <43F9F4AD.3070107@errno.com> <43FA61A4.8030406@derooij.org> <141fde50602280533m7460ada3i@mail.gmail.com> <440515B6.1080202@errno.com> <141fde50603020907q348d037bn@mail.gmail.com> <4407BD72.6030702@trio.plala.or.jp> <20060303161817.GA9482@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <44086EF7.2080700@trio.plala.or.jp>
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--uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:29:43AM +0900, Eitarou Kamo wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Brooks Davis wrote: >=20 > >On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:52:18PM +0900, Eitarou Kamo wrote: > > =20 > > > >>Hi, > >> > >>Peter de Rooij wrote: > >> > >> =20 > >> > >>>On 01/03/06, Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> wrote: > >>>=20 > >>> > >>> =20 > >>> > >>>>ral is hit&miss for me when operating as a station. Unfortunately I > >>>>don't have chip specs and I haven't figured out what's wrong with the > >>>>driver based on looking at the linux code. If you want to keep the c= ard > >>>>you can see if ndis will work. Otherwise you can buy a different car= d. > >>>> =20 > >>>> > >><snip> > >> > >></snip> > >> > >>BTW, is there ports or pkg of wpa_supplicant for 5.3, 5.4 or stable? > > > >No, you need to run 6.0. >=20 > I will run it. And 5-stable doesn't support it, why? Because supporting WPA required incompatible changes to the in-kernel driver API and we don't make those in release branches without really good reason. Since 6.0 is much better than 5.x anyway, there was no justification for the disruption the merge would have caused. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFECHuUXY6L6fI4GtQRAhlmAKC/CaVS2t9eaq3HtsmtK86hlO+00gCcD2R3 EXs8AogXvCvFdleqcEdv11k= =X8Dp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --uZ3hkaAS1mZxFaxD--
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