On 9/30/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:04:31AM +0200, Alessandro Suardi wrote:
> > On 9/29/06, Jean Tourrilhes <jt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> [asuardi@sandman ~]$ rpm -q wireless-tools
> > >> wireless-tools-28-0.pre13.5.1
> > >
> > > That's too old, the cutoff is 27-pre15.
> >
> > Are you sure ? For how I read it, 28-0.pre13.5.1 is more recent
> > than 27-pre15, not older.
>
> Sorry, I'm mixing up my numbers.
> The cutoff for the ESSID fix is 28-pre15, so your version is
> just a little bit older. I'm mixing up with the iwpoint cutoff which
> was 27-pre25.
OK.
> > So I guess there's an actual bug that doesn't depend on the
> > wireless-tools. Or maybe it's wpa_supplicant that has to be
> > upgraded ?
>
> I don't have the start of the thread, so I don't know the
> exact failure mode. If you are using wpa_supplicant, it bypasses the
> wireless tools so it would have to be updated.
> Note that I've been pestering Jouni about the fact that he had
> to update wpa_supplicant for that since last May, when Jouni himself
> asked me to change the ESSID API. Ironic, isn't it ?
> The epitest.fi site seems unfortunately down...
Yup, same from here. I was about to go downloading and rebuilding
wpa_supplicant from the 0.4.9 (stable) and failing that from the
0.5.5 (dev) tarball, but epitest.fi isn't reachable.
> > > On the other hand, FC6, which is in beta, contains already the
> > >proper version of the tools. I have been monitoring the various distro
> > >in the last few months before sending those WE-21 patches, and all
> > >major distro have WT-28 in the pipeline.
> >
> > Even if so, wireless-tools would be the only package I have to
> > build out of the FC5 distribution to keep up with the latest -git
> > snapshot of the Torvalds kernel... I'm not especially troubled
> > with this anyway. Perhaps you could push the Fedora folks to
> > be a bit more up-to-date with wireless-tools in their current
> > main version ?
>
> The FC people are busy.
In any case, cc'ing Dave who chipped in earlier in the thread -
if wpa_supplicant needs to be rebuilt, then it's very likely that
even FC6 which has 0.4.8-something (just checked ;) will not
work with the current kernel changes.
I will post an update when I can get hold of the newer sources
for wpa_supplicant...