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Date:      Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:13:34 -0400
From:      "Yuri Lukin" <lists@swaggi.com>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: new wpa_supplicant and hostapd [ndis users read]
Message-ID:  <20070712021057.M59188@swaggi.com>
In-Reply-To: <469504D2.8000200@errno.com>
References:  <469504D2.8000200@errno.com>

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On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:26:58 -0700, Sam Leffler wrote
> These applications have been updated to the 0.5.8 "stable release" 
> from Jouni Malinen.  This gets us back on Jouni's stable release 
> branch (as opposed to the abandoned code base we were using).  There 
> are many new features (read the docs in contrib) and you should now 
> be able to use 802.1x over wired nic's though it may not be 
> configured by default 
> (please send patches after testing and I will try stuff updated).
> 
> ndis support in wpa_supplicant has been tested but requires fixups 
> in the kernel that are pending.  However people using ndis should 
> also be aware that the in-kernel ndis support has badly rotted and 
> appears chock-a-block with issues.  Unless someone steps up to work 
> on it expect instability.  Thanks to Andrew Thompson for patching 
> things up.
> 

Hi Sam, 

Great work, thank you. 

Does this update include multi-bss support? There's mention of it in the
ChangeLog for hostapd but "only for Devicescape and test driver interfaces"?

Regards,
Yuri






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