Hi Greg,
Is it possible to port the open source wpa_supplicant and make it work
with Intel WiMAX service? Though I am not sure if it works on 64-bit
systems.
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:15 PM, Greg Lee <glee-list at swspec.com> wrote:
> Hi Inaky, do you (or any others from Intel) have an estimate for when the
> open source supplicant will be available? I want to propose the Intel WiMAX
> Link 5350 for a product that my company is making, but we run Linux on an
> Intel XScale (ARM) processor so we will need to compile all of the source
> code ourselves including the supplicant.
> Please give us an estimated time frame on when the open source supplicant
> will be available so that we can factor this into our product plans.
>
> Thanks,
> Greg
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Richard Farina <sidhayn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 14:25 -0600, Richard Farina wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:56 -0400, Richard Farina wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> First of all, thanks for your quick response Inaky, it is appreciated.
>>>> While the prospect of an open source supplicant is obviously preferred, is
>>>> there any way to take the old binary supplicant and compile it for 64 bit?
>>>> Or make the 64 bit wimax network service able to use the 32 bit binary blob
>>>> of a supplicant? I love the idea of an open source supplicant, but at the
>>>> moment I'd take free as in beer while waiting for my free as in freedom.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> At this point, that'd be probably more work than the final push to the
>>> open source one.
>>>
>>> I understand the frustration, but we are severely tight with resources
>>> here, so we need to place them where most makes sense. In the long term,
>>> the open source solution is the best one, so the little we can divert
>>> resources from anyone, we try to put them there.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Understandable to be sure. I figured if it was as simple as just
>> compiling the binary in 64 bit that it could be done easily but if work is
>> required I would definately rather see the resources go into the open source
>> version. I help fun a small livecd for which I've added wimax support to
>> the 32 bit version. If you need anything related to the 64 bit work you are
>> doing tested, I have a small user base that is equipped with appropriate
>> hardware and I'm sure they would be very happy to 1) Help test and 2) Have a
>> working device :-)
>>
>> Thanks again,
>>
>> Rick
>>
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