On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 19:55 +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Jouni, > > > > I am trying to use wpa_supplicant in D-Bus mode with the nl80211 driver > > > instead of WEXT. I don't seem to be able to control the from the command > > > line and the -D option doesn't take. > > > > I would assume you are doing this with NM. You could either change it to > > register the interface (this is not from -D option, but from the D-Bus > > message) with the nl80211 driver or try to build wpa_supplicant without > > WEXT support (which would make the nl80211 wrapper the default one). I > > don't think either of these are yet acceptable as a generic solution, > > but making NM request driver "nl80211,wext" could be a suitable first > > step when moving to wpa_supplicant 0.7.x (this makes wpa_supplicant > > first try with nl80211 and if needed, fall back to WEXT). > > I am doing manual testing and with ConnMan. However I would prefer to > have a global driver setting "nl80211,wext" that I can give on the > command line and that will then chosen as default if the addInterface > method doesn't give a driver. I really don't need a per interface > setting here. Um, you can specify a driver for the interface you add in the dbus call for addInterface. Add a "driver" key to your dict with the driver you want in the value. Is there a bug with that? Dan > > > Can we fix this somehow? I really wanna get rid of using WEXT. > > > > There still one remaining WEXT operation even with driver_nl80211.c in > > wpa_supplicant, so we are not yet there, but there is work going on in > > getting that added to nl80211 after which point -Dnl80211 (or > > -Dnl80211,wext for more likely distro use) should allow this goal to be > > met. > > Fair enough, but we are getting there and when testing, I like to be > using as much nl80211 as possible. > > Regards > > Marcel > > > -- > 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 -- 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
