#527: document wext compliance
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Reporter: kelmo | Owner: kelmo
Type: task | Status: assigned
Priority: trivial | Milestone: version 1.0.0 - first
stable release
Component: madwifi: documentation | Version: trunk
Resolution: | Keywords:
Patch_attached: 0 |
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Having just spent the past 2 days looking at MADWiFi's Wireless Extensions
support, I thought I'd chime in.
As of snapshot r1648, MADWiFi partially supports WE version 18:
* no support for '''SIOCSIWPMKSA''' ( WPA2 PMKSA cache operation ); ioctl
code not present.
* only new wireless event used is '''IWEVGENIE''' ( generic IE element );
used in lieu of '''WIEVCUSTOM''' RSN/WPA IE elements.
* new '''SIOCSIWSCAN''' request params (used for controlling scanning
behavior) not used.
* '''SIOCSIWAUTH''' - the following parameters are not supported and
return the {{{errno}}} '''EOPNOTSUPP''' ( see ticket #566 for details ):
* '''IW_AUTH_80211_AUTH_ALG''' - sets the authentication algorithm (
Open | Shared | LEAP ).
* '''IW_AUTH_RX_UNENCRYPTED_EAPOL''' - allows uncrypted EAPOL messages
if pairwise keys are set and WPA is ''not'' enabled.
* '''SIOCGIWRANGE''' - returns ''13'' for {{{we_version_source}}} instead
of ''18'' ( '''Note''' - I think {{{we_version_source}}} is supposed to
return the version of Wireless Extensions supported by the driver itself,
whereas {{{we_version_compiled}}} is the version supported by the kernel
).
I've also found that after patching my kernel (2.6.12) with the WE18 patch
and rebuilding MADWiFi 0.9.0, wpa_supplicant (0.4.7) won't associate with
any access points ( I've tried WPA-PSK and WEP ) if I start it with
''-Dwext''. It works just fine if I start it with ''-Dmadwifi''. I
haven't debugged the problem yet.
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/527>
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