Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (257 mails)

[Raymond Wooninck <tittiatcoke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/05/09 07:09, Fred A. Miller wrote:

> > This is exactly what happened when I upgraded wpa_supplicant to the
> > factory version. As with you, downgrading made it work again. I'm using
> > a card that uses the iwl3945 driver.
>
> Why would you use spa_supplicant? There's a native Linux driver for that
> chipset.

wpa_supplicant is being used as the program that communicates with the
access point to setup the wireless security (e.g. wep or wpa). This has
nothing to do with the driver for the chipset.

wpa_supplicant is an essential part in order to enable the Wireless
network ability. NetworkManager will not show any wireless networks, if
it can not communicate with wpa_supplicant. ifup/iwconfig will find
wireless networks, but ifup/dhclient will fail if wpa_supplicant is not
working properly.

Based on the indication from Greg, I  will submit a bug report for this
one.

I guess it would be good to keep a working wpa_supplicant 0.6.4 around :-)

Raymond
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