On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:26 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > Jim, > > > I am running a wifi device on kernel 2.6.11 and wireless extension > > version 17 for an ARM processor, it works fine with an open AP and > > wpa_supplicant 0.5.8. > > That's ancient. > > > Now I would like to support WEP and WPA. I know > > the best is to upgrade to latest kernel, but I am not in the position > > to do it as various reasons. > > Upgrade anyway. > > > An alternative as people suggested is to > > do a wireless extension patch which supports WEP and WPA on kernel > > 2.6.11. Any advice if it is feasible and where can I find the wireless > > extension patch for WEP and WPA on kernel 2.6.11 please? > > Hahaha. We'll you'll have to *make* that patch and invest a > *significant* amount of time into that. Yeah; it's not just the defines and whatnot in wireless.h; you probably also want to update wireless-tools too, then you have to update your driver as well. It's not hugely complex, but it's going to be a lot of boring work :) Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
