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Re: nl80211 and wext interoperability

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On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 4:43 AM, Johannes Berg<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> With the recent work I've done in cfg80211 for nl80211 and wext, we've
> mostly removed wext code everywhere. The only thing missing right now is
> the key support, and I think then we can declare cfg80211's wext compat
> layer pretty much done in terms of what mac80211 had -- orinoco will
> need the sensitivity (or AP density) thing but I'm not sure how we
> should do that since it's a value that is hardware dependent -- we'll
> need to have very good discovery code for the allowed values (unlike
> wext where you can set 0..3 and don't know what that means). Anyway,
> that wasn't the point of this email.
>
> Currently, if you use wpa_supplicant -Dwext and -Dnl80211 mixed,
> -Dnl80211 gets confused because -Dwext will set a 32-byte random SSID to
> "disconnect".

When do we disconnect like this? Upon initialization of wpa_supplicant
-Dwext -Dnl80211 ?

  Luis
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