[laptop-discuss] wpa support on B60+

[John Weekley]

Quaker Fang wrote:
> 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. :-)
>
Cool, thanks!


>>
>> 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.

That's very good news.  Thanks for all the hard work!
John