tags -1 - patch Hi On 2015-01-26 19:52:54, Michael Gilbert <mgilbert@debian.org> wrote: > package: src:wpa > version: 2.3-1 > severity: important > tags: patch > > Hi, > > The kfreebsd installation media currently lack wpa support. Here is a > patch that adds support for building the udeb. I'm closing this bug, as your patch doesn't -and can't- work (anytime soon). Please don't inflate the bug severity, this would be a request for a new feature, not a bug. In order to work, wpasupplicant requires either libnl or libpcap. libnl is linux-any (it requires the nl80211 interface of the linux kernel), therefore wpasupplicant uses libpcap on kfreebsd-any, which however doesn't provide a udeb. If I'd take your patch as-is, the kfreebsd-any wpasupplicant udeb would therefore gain a dependency on the non-existing package libpcap0.8-udeb (instant RC bug and introducing a new package at this time in the jessie freeze is certainly not appreciated by the release team or the d-i maintainers). So the first step here would be to get libpcap to provide a udeb, at least on kfreebsd-any. The next step is d-i, or technically netcfg, itself, which only provides support for scanning via wext (wireless extension), a deprecated kernel-userspace API of the linux kernel. As kfreebsd, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't emulate this API to userspace, netcfg would need to gain support for the native kfreebsd wlan interfaces - and ideally for linux' new nl80211 API as well. The same goes for actually managing the interface from within netcfg. If I remember correctly, Kel Modderman did originally suggest an alternative way to scan via wpasupplicant (and thereby to abstract (most of, at least for scanning) the wlan interface handling from netcfg), rather than making it depend on the deprecated wext Linux API, but netcfg chose a different way. I'd be happy to provide a udeb on kfreebsd-any as well, but these kfreebsd specific issues need to be solved first. Feel free to re-open this bug (or to file a new one), once this has been resolved and tested - or has at least reached the planning state for stretch. Regards Stefan Lippers-Hollmann
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