Support for more wpa_supplicant drivers

[psYchotic]

Wicd currently offers the following options as drivers for wpa_supplicant:
  - wext
  - hostap
  - atmel
  - ndiswrapper
  - ipw
  - ralink_legacy

My actual problem is that wext has been failing on me lately, whereas nl80211 has not. However, it is missing from the list of possible drivers in wicd. It would be very nice is wicd would give me the possibility of using it.

On a side note: there's the problem that wpa_supplicant on my system does not have any driver named "ralink_legacy". Instead, it has a "ralink" driver.

Perhaps it would be a good idea to present the user with a list of drivers that it is actually accurate and complete. wpa_supplicant -h gives a nice list of available drivers on the current build. That might be a good starting point to find out about these drivers. Or perhaps there should be a list item called "other" which, when selected, would make a text field appear in which the user can put the name of his driver of choice. Either way, I'm left standing in the cold with this simple problem.

[Dan O'Reilly (oreilldf)]

Thanks for the report, I've added this functionality to the latest bzr version.

If you want a quick fix for this on your own system you can open up /usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/wicd/prefs.py and search for this line:
        self.wpadrivers = ["wext", "hostap", "madwifi", "atmel",
                           "ndiswrapper", "ipw"]
Just add the drivers you want to that list and restart the GUI. Otherwise you can pull down the bzr version and use that, or just wait for 1.6.3.