5-stable wpa_supplicant (Re: ral/wpa_supplicant drops after successful WPA negotiation?)

[Brooks Davis]

On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 01:29:43AM +0900, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Brooks Davis wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 12:52:18PM +0900, Eitarou Kamo wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>Peter de Rooij wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On 01/03/06, Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>ral is hit&miss for me when operating as a station.  Unfortunately I
> >>>>don't have chip specs and I haven't figured out what's wrong with the
> >>>>driver based on looking at the linux code.  If you want to keep the card
> >>>>you can see if ndis will work.  Otherwise you can buy a different card.
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >><snip>
> >>
> >></snip>
> >>
> >>BTW, is there ports or pkg of wpa_supplicant for 5.3, 5.4 or stable?
> >
> >No, you need to run 6.0.
> 
> I will run it. And  5-stable doesn't support it, why?

Because supporting WPA required incompatible changes to the in-kernel
driver API and we don't make those in release branches without really
good reason.  Since 6.0 is much better than 5.x anyway, there was no
justification for the disruption the merge would have caused.

-- Brooks

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