Re: Bug#610931: Please build wpasupplicant-udeb
Hi,
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 09:34:27 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> > > > > > Has there been any solution for the netcfg integration already,
> > > > > > see <201011041811.11753.kel@otaku42.de> [1], referring to the
> > > > > > originally proposed introduction of embedded source copies of
> > > > > > wpasuppliant's wpa_ctrl.[hc] into netcfg. Please also keep in
> > > > > > mind that crda/ wireless-regdb is required for accessing
> > > > > > channels 11-13/14 on modern drivers.
> > > > >
> > > > > I've applied the existing WPA netcfg support patches developed by
> > > > > Glenn Saberton, and they do appear to include a (stripped down)
> > > > > wpa_ctrl.c.
> > > >
> > > > That stripped down crap probably was extracted from a sideline
> > > > project (python-wpactrl) I was working on, and is not good long term
> > > > solution.
> > > >
> > > > wpa_ctrl.{c,h} from current wpasupplicant source tree have lots more
> > > > dependency on other stuff. Extracting and patching wpa_ctrl.{c,h} to
> > > > be standalone is something which should be avoided - I just do not
> > > > know how currently.
> > > >
> > > > Asked upstream wpa_supplicant if wpa_ctrl could be provided in a way
> > > > where it could be a shared library but received no response.
> > >
> > > Is there any progress on this?
> >
> > Nope.
>
> Do you think it's worth poking about this again? The current code in
> netcfg works (at least for the debconf wpa-psk network), but a real
> library would be nicer ;-).
It cannot hurt to ask. I've already asked before, so maybe someone else can
this time :).
>
> > > > > I
> > > > > have no idea what the story is with crda/wireless-regdb, as I said
> > > > > before, I don't know anything about WPA. If you'd like to help
> > > > > out, though, your knowledge would be greatly valued.
> > > >
> > > > I wouldn't mind helping out, don't know how though, Have little idea
> > > > about D-I environment and took long enough to just reply to this
> > > > request to feel a little embarrassed.
> > > >
> > > > Also haven't seen the proposed change to netcfg anytime in recent
> > > > past to comment further. Can that be reviewed?
> > >
> > > It's in branch people/womble/wpa of
> > > git://git.debian.org/git/d-i/netcfg.
> > >
> > > Gaudenz
> >
> > Thanks for the link.
>
> Do you have time to look at the code in the next days? Otherwise I'll
> probably just merge as it is now and we can fix things later if there
> are problems.
Do not wait for any activity from me, I'm currently not very active with
Debian work - mostly keeping up with basic maintenace related tasks.
Not familiar with netcfg or the debian-installer environment at all yet.
>
> I have another yet unresolved problem: With the proposed udeb
> configuration from the original patch and using the netlink driver I can
> connect to the network, but DHCP does not work. When I build a udeb with
> the same
> configuration as for the normal linux package minus DBUS and smartcard
> support it works. Do you know which options I need to include to get a
> package where DHCP also works with the netlink driver?
From the top of my head I do not know why you observe this difference in
behaviour. Where WEXT works, nl80211 should work and vice versa.
Thanks, Kel.
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