On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 00:52 +0200, matthieu castet wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I attach a diff against 2.6.21 for adding wpa support for airo driver.
> In then end of 2005 I manage to make work wpa but the code was really
> ugly. I manage to find some time to clean it.
>
>
> To support wpa, a new interface of the firmware should be used. This
> interface is incompatible with the old interface and using both
> interface at the same time make the firmware hang.
>
> Porting OPEN and WEP mode to new interface need some driver rewrite, and
> the old interface should be keep for the older cards (or the cards that
> doesn't have newer firmware).
What's involved in doing this? Do you have any pointers or sample code
that could be used here?
I'd assume that we'd just use AUTH_CIPHER_WEP/AUTH_CIPHER_NONE and
AUTH_KEY_MGMT_NONE in ConfigRidExtra. But where does the WEP key
material go, does it get stuffed into the WpaKeyRid too or somewhere
else?
Dan
> That's why I didn't do it, and I added a module parameter for choosing
> between the old driver behavior (with no wpa support) or the driver with
> wpa only support.
>
>
> The wireless extension handlers are a bit ugly, I will be very happy, if
> somebody could help me to clean them.
>
> Any comments are appreciated.
>
>
> Matthieu
>
>
> PS : the lastest version of the driver can be found in
> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/airo-wpa/branches/kernel/
>
> PS2 : There is some remaining trace in the driver for debug purpose,
> that will be removed in the final version
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