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.

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