Subject: Re: 80211 changes and wpa_supplicant
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.org>
From: Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@rvdp.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 08/14/2005 19:00:56
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 16:15:41 -0500, David Young wrote:

> > I can find SIOCS80211BSSID in net80211/ieee80211_ioctl.h, but I cannot
> > find SIOCS80211SSID.
> 
> Sorry, it's called SIOCS80211NWID.  Maybe I ought to make an alias.

Ah, thanks.

> > Any plans to move to a higher version? I have compiled wpa_supplicant
> > with the libpcap from pkgsrc and that one has pcap_inject().
> 
> Yes, I have been thinking about it.  IIRC, it was I who did the last
> libpcap/tcpdump import.  It was a PITA, but we are so much more up-to-date
> that a re-import should not be a big deal.

That would be nice.

> (wpa_supplicant really deserves to be part of the base system.  We agree,
> no doubt, but installing from pkgsrc is expedient.)

Maybe I could put it in wip first.

> Careful, you may be duplicating some work.  The place to start is the
> FreeBSD code.  That is, look at the scripts that Sam Leffler wrote to
> import the latest wpa_supplicant.  I have sent the relevant paths in
> FreeBSD to this list or current-users once or twice before.

Yes, I am already working with the FreeBSD code.

	rvdp