On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 07:46:27PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 10:37 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > > If you want me to understand what it's about, you may want to > > give me a bit more context. > > Sorry. Basically, Larry is saying that due to a kernel change, iwlist > will print out things like > IE: Unknown: 0017465249545A21426F7820466F6E20574C414E2037313133 > IE: Unknown: 010482848B96 > IE: Unknown: 030106 > IE: Unknown: 2A0106 > IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 > Group Cipher : TKIP > Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP > Authentication Suites (1) : PSK > IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C > IE: WPA Version 1 > Group Cipher : TKIP > Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP > Authentication Suites (1) : PSK > IE: Unknown: DD0A0800280101000200FF0F > IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00 > > > where all the IE: Unknown lines are unexpected. Unexpected, but not broken. That's good. > > Alternatively, just send me a patch for Wireless Tools, and > > I'll put it in the next release. Wireless Tools is still maintained > > and I still do releases, even if I don't put much cycles into it. > > The problem is that we don't quite know what to do about them :) We are not supposed to "do" anything, but to show the underlying data in a user friendly way. I can't believe that we could not parse this data properly, we manage to parse other IEs correctly. If you are debugging a problem with wpa_supplicant, or a Access Point issue, what would *you* want to see there. > johannes Have fun... Jean -- 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
