HEADSUP: new wpa_supplicant and hostapd [ndis users read]

[Sam Leffler]

Yuri Lukin wrote:
> 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"?

multi-bss support in hostapd is present but nothing is in the kernel and 
it's unlikely any multi-bss code will go into 7.x because it would 
require api changes.  More likely the vap code will appear in 8.x.

	Sam