[laptop-discuss] wpa support on B60+

Quaker Fang Quaker.Fang at Sun.COM
Tue Apr 3 19:13:47 PDT 2007


John Weekley wrote:

> I just grabbed the wpa-0.1 package and was very disappointed.  I run 
> B60 on my laptop with an atheros supported wifi chipset.  The package 
> requires the ancient and hoary old OpenSSL 0.9.7 (easily fixed with 
> symlinks, but still...) and I'd have to downgrade my wificonfig to 
> make it understand that there's more to the wireless world than WEP.

The wificonfig v0.3 on the opensolaris is the latest wificonfig, you 
doesn't downgrade, but upgrade. :-)

>
> Are there any plans to upgrade the functionality of wificonfig/dladm 
> to support the wpa_supplicant, or better yet an integrated solution? 

Yes, the wpa service and dladm support will be integrated soon, it will 
be a lot of improment than the version of opensolaris.
Please wait.

--
Quaker

> WEP is thoroughly broken and the situation just got worse today.
> http://www.cdc.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/aircrack-ptw/
>
> Thanks, John
>
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