HEADSUP: new wpa_supplicant and hostapd [ndis users read]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 13:00 +0200, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> On 2007.07.11 14:02:56 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Which patch do you mean?  While I don't have a problem with taking
> stuff off the vendor branch if needed, I general I prefer not to
> change OpenSSL unless there is a good reason (critical bugs, security
> issues etc).

/usr/src/contrib/wpa_supplicant/openssl-0.9.8d-tls-extensions.patch

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
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