On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 21:37 +1100, hce wrote: > 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. Incorrect. WE-18 _added_ support for WPA ioctls but did not remove support for WEP. You'll just have to debug stuff and find out what's going wrong. 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
