HEADSUP: new wpa_supplicant and hostapd [ndis users read]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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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.

Are there plans to add the patch to the base system OpenSSL needed to
enable EAP-FAST?  This would greatly help me at work.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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