WPA on laptops running FreeBSD 5.3?

[Sam Leffler]

Eric Masson wrote:
>>>>>>"Sam" == Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> writes:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  Sam> A search of the archives would show: "no, it cannot be done
>  Sam> because doing so would alter api's that are frozen for the life of
>  Sam> 5.x".
> 
> A little hijack of this thread to thank you for your work on wireless
> support in FreeBSD.
> 
> net80211, ath & wpa_supplicant have worked really fine for me this week
> as it allowed me to test an Atheros based card (Planet WL-3560) in
> wpa-psk setup (The root problem in my case ended to be the crappy
> windows driver bundled with the card)
> 
> Do you know if there's any plan to convert an(4) and wi(4) to the new
> net80211 capabilities (wpa and so on) ?

I have no intention.  I believe it is more valuable to spend time on 
importing support for newer devices that can support WPA natively (like 
Intel).  OTOH there's nothing to stop someone else from doing it; it 
should not be a lot of work.

	Sam