https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477833 User AxelKoellhofer@web.de added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477833#c6 --- Comment #6 from Axel Köllhofer <AxelKoellhofer@web.de> 2009-03-02 14:32:07 MST --- Excellent, of course I will test the modified sysconfig-package as soon as it is available. BTW: I also made a few other (cosmetic?) changes to ifup-wirless, considering the warnings "WPA is configured but my be unsupported by this device" when using wext with some of the new drivers, which are known to work rather flawlessly now (mostly the mac80211-based ones). I several fora, users were confused by this message and sometimes the respective thread went into the wrong direction, because they took this warning too seriously, although the real problem was located somewhere else. If you are interested, the changes I made are very simple: --- ifup-wireless.orig 2009-03-02 22:06:14.000000000 +0100 +++ ifup-wireless 2009-03-02 22:07:59.000000000 +0100 @@ -700,6 +700,30 @@ rt2500*) WPA_DRIVER=wext ;; +############################################################################################################ +########### Add a few new drivers which are known to work reliably with "wext" ############################# +############################################################################################################ + rt61pci|rt73usb|rt2400pci) + WPA_DRIVER=wext + ;; + iwlagn|iwl3945|iwl4965) + WPA_DRIVER=wext + ;; + zd1211rw) + WPA_DRIVER=wext + ;; + ath5k|ath9k) + WPA_DRIVER=wext + ;; + b43|b43legacy|ssb) + WPA_DRIVER=wext + ;; + p54pci|p54usb) + WPA_DRIVER=wext + ;; +############################################################################################################ +########### End section of new "wext"-compatible drivers ################################################### +############################################################################################################ *) WPA_DRIVER=unsupported PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT=no The only section where I am not really sure is the part for the b43-drivers, as I don't know, if ifup-wireless detects the b43(legacy) or ssb as the actual "driver in use". If you consider activating the "ralink"-extension in wpa_supplicant, the following section would also make sense: rt61|rt73) WPA_DRIVER=ralink ;; This will run wpa_supplicant with "-Dralink" only if one of the legacy-drivers rt73 or rt61 is used (the only legacy-drivers supported by wpa_supplicant with "-Dralink"), and it is known to work with ifup (AFAIK Networkmanager does only play well with "wext", but these changes would only affect ifup anyway and if one has to use legacy-drivers, there is no other choice than switching to "good old ifup"), especially in cases, where the new drivers rt61pci or rt73usb (the latter is a lot less problematic) give problems. Another question arose when having a closer look at the "staging"-drivers now being included in the openSUSE-Kernel: The "old" driver for Atmel USB-adaptors seems to have changed his name: /lib/modules/2.6.27.19-3.2-pae/kernel/drivers/staging/at76_usb/at76_usb.ko so this rule here at76c5*) WPA_DRIVER=atmel PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT=no ;; will not work any more or even worse, it might give problems, as there is now also the "new" driver "at76c50x-usb.ko" based on mac80211 (and already included in compat-wireless) which normally should use "wext" instead of "atmel" for wpa_supplicant. I am not 100% sure about this, but at least it might be a potential problem. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.