Comment 10 for bug 289982

On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 05:27:20PM -0000, jms wrote:
> Have you tried to connect with wpasupplicant using ps3 driver? I couldn't connect with linux-ports kernel 2.6.25-2 with wpa_supplicant option "-Dps3", error message was "Unsupported driver 'ps3'".
> I found this (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=463852)
>
> "The WEXT driver should work correctly with the PS3 Gelic wireless driver as of
> 2.6.27 kernel and wpa_supplicant 0.6.4, both of which ship with rawhide. The
> "ps3" wpa_supplicant driver is deprecated as it was used before the kernel had
> WEXT support for IW_ENC_CAPA_4WAY_HANDSHAKE. Please let me know if the WEXT
> driver doesn't work by reopening this bug, and then we'll try to pin down where
> the problem is."
>

yes, HW specific wpasupplicant drivers are really a problem and we
should use wext nowadays. If there are still drivers that dont work
with wext it really is time to fix those.

> So I tried next with kernel from Geoffs git (2.6.28-rc2) using option
> "-Dwext" and ps3 connected succesfully to WPA enabled AP.
>

NM always uses -Dwext in intrepid.

 - Alexander