On 3/5/08, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 I've just upgrade wireless extension version 18 which supports WPA (Is it for WEP as well?), with replaced two files of version 18 wireless.h and wireless.c in the kernel 2.6.11. Please correct me if I missed other source files in the kernel. The wireless-tools we are using come from different sources, the iwconfig was from busybox 1.3 and wpa_supplicant 0.5.8 was compiled to our firmware. The initial test for WEP set up was not good, but I was told, the wireless extension vresion 18 only supports WPA not WEP, please advice. Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim -- 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
