Package: wpasupplicant Version: 0.6.3-2 Severity: wishlist Hi!
The short story seems to be that an atheros card running madwifi sometimes fails to authenticate when using wpasupplicant -D wext, while it always works if run with -D madwifi. The long story is this: I have two computers, one runs an old atheros card with an old setup that uses -D madwifi, and has been working perfectly doing WPA2 psk authentications against my madwifi based AP, that was till I upgraded to wpasupplicant 0.6.3-2, when I had to switch it from -D madwifi to -D wext, when it started to fail from time to time. When it fails it fails all the time and then it is blacklisted for a time on the madwifi AP, so it won't authenticate under whatever driver, OS or whatever. It was seing this computer fail when using -D wext that I realised that the problems I was seing on the other computer (a new computer which has just received support from madwifi) which I was thinking were caused by a still not good support on madifi, could be caused by the -D wext that I was using on this computer. So, after changing this new computer from -D wext to -D madwifi (using 0.6.3-1) it started working perfectly, like the old computer used to do when it was running -D madwifi. So... I believe that the -D wext is not working well with the madifi drivers, at least on a setup like mine (WPA2 psk which is not weird at all). Of course this should be fixed on the madwifi driver, but I was wondering how long will it take for the madwifi drivers to address this, and if it is the right time at a short time for the release to drop all this wpasupplicant drivers, maybe there aren't any problems, but where may be problems like this that are found after the release, so... is this a risk we want to take with an important package like wpasupplicant? I can do whatever tests you want on both the computers, but it is quite difficult to extract info from just a couple of tests as it only fails sometimes, and also because of the blacklisting. I'm Ccing the madwifi maintainers to see if they know of similar experiences. Regards... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25 Locale: LANG=gl_ES.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=gl_ES.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on: ii adduser 3.108 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libpcsclite1 1.4.101-2 Middleware to access a smart card ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-10.1 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-12 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip wpasupplicant recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]