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From: duncan
>
> Some more info I found to help document a WPA roadmap:
>
> The open source part of the Agere driver distributed as
> wl_lkm_718_release.tar.gz
> includes WPA-PSK support (Hermes-I firmware 9.48) This is the last
> open source release by Agere for Hermes-I.
I also found the earlier wl_lkm_714_release.tar (just before WPA support was
added)
was also available by googling. (also with a BSD license).
The diff isnt that big, so it shows what
was added for initial WPA support. Looking through it, I see that
wl_lkm_718 is written for old kernels (2.4.x ?) with only WE < 18 support,
and part of the WPA support added is stuff added for things not then yet
supported
the then-available Wireless Extensions
for example:
+ /* Becuase this event (Association WPA-IE) is not part of the Wireless
+ Extensions yet, it must be passed as a string using an IWEVCUSTOM
event.
+ In order for the event to be effective, the string format must be known
+ by both the driver and the supplicant. The following is the string
format
+ used by the hostap project's WPA supplicant, and will be used here
until
+ the Wireless Extensions interface adds this support:
so maybe some of the additions are infrastructure now in place in the latest
kernels?
Since these two tarballs aren't so easy to find, perhaps a "helpful stuff for
WPA"
tree could be created in the orinoco subversion repository, and these
redistributable
open source Agere driver releases placed there. (I can send them to Pavel
if he doesent have both of them).
I gather the releases stopped after Agere sold out to Proxim. In any case,
they had already dropped Hermes-I support in wl_lkm_722_release.
> It seems WPA-PSK
> for Hermes-I arrived with the previous firmware 9.42.
>
> (does this correspond to "firmver >= 0x90002a" (FIRMWARE_TYPE_AGERE) ?)
>
>
should be 0x9002a (?)
> (The Apple airport in my IGHz Ti powerbook has Hermes-I firmware 9.52 with
> the
> full
> WPA2 "personal" and "enterprise" implemented)
>
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