linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA

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Message-ID: <5a4c581d0609301335n224f0ea4r98de791282a73ba1@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:35:14 +0200
From:	"Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>
To:	"Dave Jones" <davej@...hat.com>,
	"Alessandro Suardi" <alessandro.suardi@...il.com>, jt@....hp.com,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	"Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-git9 wireless fixes break ipw2200 association to AP with WPA

On 9/30/06, Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:27:01PM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
>  >
>  > Good news, WPA association is back to work for me using
>  >  wireless_tools.29.pre10 and wpa_supplicant-0.4.9 with
>  >
>  >  2.6.18-git11 vanilla
>  >  2.6.18-git11 with reverted wireless fixes
>  >  2.6.18-git13
>  >
>  >  which appears to mean that backward compatibility of the
>  >  new tools with older kernel features has also been tested :)
>  >
>  > Dave, do you want me to file a request for updated FC5 RPMs
>  >  for wireless-tools and wpa_supplicant in bugzilla or is it
>  >   - already happening
>  >   - never going to happen
>  >  ?
>
> I'm not sure if we usually wait for a 'real' release, or if there's
> precedent for us shipping pre's before, but filing a bug-report
> is a good idea so that it doesn't go unnoticed when I eventually
> push a 2.6.19 update to FC5-updates in a few months.
>
>         Dave
>

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208719
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=208720

respectively filed for wpa_supplicant and wireless-tools.

Thanks, ciao,

--alessandro

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  the first one is pride and the second one is love
  all understandings must come by this way"

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