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Bug#506223: I can confirm that



On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 20:11 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 07:10:47PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 18:36 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > > Indeed, loading aes_generic before running wpa_supplicant made it work
> > > just fine!  Does it make sense to file a bug against wpasupplicant
> > > asking for this to be turned into a more meaningful error message?
> > 
> > No, the kernel is returning the wrong error code.
> 
> Ouch. How about a bug report against the kernel, then?

You can do that but it will be low-priority.

> > You might consider filing a bug against debian-installer to request that
> > aes_generic (and any other crypto modules possibly needed for WPA) be
> > included.
> 
> They are included, in the sense that a crypto-modules udeb is made
> available for selection when loading components. I'm sure that they
> would be auto-installed if a wpasupplicant udeb was made available, but
> without one it does not make sense to install them by default.

OK, then ask for a wpasupplicant udeb. :-)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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