openSUSE Recommended Update: sysconfig: This update contains fixes for wireless networking with ifup + WPA/WPA2 and detection of disabled ipv6 in the dhcp script ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2010:0584-1 Rating: low References: #616765 #623340 #623676 #624182 #625403 #631283 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has 6 recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: The following bugs are fixed by this update: - #625403: Fixed wireless hardware to wext/nl80211 WPA driver mapping and changed to use -Dnl80211,wext by default for untested drivers to let the wpa_supplicant fallback to wext when nl80211 is not available and avoid failures with non-mac80211 based hardware drivers. Adjusted info message about untested drivers and enabled untested driver handling also in case wpa_supplicant is not required but the user prefers to use it. Fixes also bugs #623340,#623676,#624182,#631283. - #616765: Fixed check whether ipv6 is enabled or not in /sbin/ifup-dhcp to avoid dhcpv6 client start in case the interface is configured to start both, dhcpv4 and dhcpv6 clients. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 11.3: zypper in -t patch sysconfig-2987 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64): sysconfig-0.73.7-2.1.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/616765 https://bugzilla.novell.com/623340 https://bugzilla.novell.com/623676 https://bugzilla.novell.com/624182 https://bugzilla.novell.com/625403 https://bugzilla.novell.com/631283