> While there is indeed a bug in wpa_supplicant 0.5.x, I think that > another issue here is in mac80211 trying to do something that it was not > supposed to do, i.e., to figure out whether privacy is enabled or not > based on keymgmt value. This is decided in the supplicant and the value > is configured with IW_AUTH_PRIVACY_INVOKED to the kernel. In other > words, mac80211 should follow this parameter and not IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT. Hmm. Is there a good explanation of all these values? I still haven't understood what all the IW_AUTH_* means. I'm fairly sure though that this particular instance hasn't changed in terms of behaviour since the original devicescape code (not that this means it's bug-free, of course) > I merged the fix into 0.5.x branch, so it should be included in the next > release. This was fixed as part of a more generic cleanup and it did not > end up being flagged as a bug fix and consequently, not merged into > 0.5.x branch. Thanks. johannes
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