[PATCH] wpa_supplicant needs to know about hostap driver

Bug #36708 reported by j^
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)

Bug Description

wpa_supplicant needs to know if hostap is loaded. this
can be done as for the madwifi driver.

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j^ (j) wrote : patch to use hostap supplicant driver if hostap kernel driver is used

this way WEP/WPA works for prism2/2.5/3 cards.
though right now orinoco_* is loaded by default
for these cards

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j^ (j) wrote :

patch the patch,

<Keybuk> right, but that will mean that you'll get the hostap driver if kernel_driver is "rtl8129" for example
<Keybuk> because hostap < rtl8129

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

Updated patch available for review

Changed in network-manager:
assignee: nobody → keybuk
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C. Funke (funke) wrote :

I definitely second this patch since i wasnt able able to successfully use network-manager using the orinoco-drivers aside from other quirks i had with the orinoco drivers in general. The hostap drivers also seem much more stable to me, so i definitely recommend using them on prism based pci cards.

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Thanks

Changed in network-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in network-manager:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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