Hello!
On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 07:13 +0000,
f.duncan.m.haldane-fOdFMYwuEsI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Is there any chance that WPA support will get added to orinoco.c?
Yes, if somebody implements it.
But as far as I know, nobody is working on it, and no patches have ever
been posted.
> (I was looking into adding Linux (ubuntu breezy) as a dual boot to an
> Apple Ti Powerbook with
> an original 802.11b airport card, and the only real issue I found
> while testing with a live CD was the lack of orinoco WPA support).
>
> Hopefully the wpa support from ipw2100.c atmel.c or
> hostap/hostap_ioctl.c could be ported to
> give WE-18 capabilities to orinoco?
I think anything relevant could only be taken from HostAP, and then only
for Prism chipset. The real issue is not in wireless extensions - it's
the hardware and the firmware side of the implementation.
> An alternative I saw suggested (on a mailing list, by someone at Red
> Hat) was to adapt the airport.c shim to use the hostap driver in
> managed mode, (someone claimed that it could work with hermes as well
> as prism2) but hostap seems prism-specific.
HostAP is definitely prism specific. Support for Lucent was planned,
but never implemented. I think it's easier to add WPA support for
Lucent firmware to Orinoco than to HostAP. At least you would start
with a working driver.
> Adding WPA to orinoco seems the way to go.
> I know its difficult to find time to do more than fight bitrot on mature
> drivers, and 802.11b
> is getting obsolete, but WPA support would be a really worthwhile addition.
Yes, fighting bitrot is a major timesink. Even with a very limited set
of supported kernels, supporting PCMCIA on each of them is a challenge.
That's what is holding a standalone 0.15 release.
> Maybe Jouni Malinen (the wpa_supplicant maintainer) might be able to help?
> (I'm not in a position to spend the time playing with this now).
That's exactly the problem. Whoever asks for WPA offers exactly
nothing.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
-------------------------------------------------------
All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk!
Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in
the hosting industry. Fanatical Support. Click to learn more
http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=107521&bid=248729&dat=121642
|
| 
