[Patch] include wireless scan_capa

[Nikolaus Filus]

Taken from networkmanager-list as adviced by Dan Williams.

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On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 20:52 +0100, fabio.segale@...... wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > At work I have a wireless network with static address and wpa-psk
> > protection but and don't broadcast the ssid. So I've configured nm in
> > manual mode to use the statical ip and save this profile/location but
> > to work I'have to add manualy in the file /etc/network/interface the
> > options wpa-scan-ssid 1!!

What you really want to do is get your distro to apply the "scan
capabilities" patch to their kernel, and then backport the NM scan
capabilities patch to your distro's NM version.

Dan
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The referenced patch is in

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f4317f3ba1f6d833bcf8ec22b5575b981b5438dc

And for the 0.6.x version of NM and the needed part, a seperate bug will be filled.

[Fabio Segale (fabio-segale)]

This is my patch of linux-source-2.6.22 based on Dan Willimas's patch I also correct the EXTRAVERSION number reported in this my bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/186346

Bye

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Just adding a note for the kernel team that patch appears to be in 2.6.24-rc8-mm1. Thanks.

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

cherry-pick 374fdfbc67837c1f4369eedb0f371ce3e6cce832 from Linus' tree

[Tim Gardner (timg-tpi)]

Ubuntu-2.6.24-8.13

[Ryan Novosielski (novosirj)]

How can I test for this? It does not appear to be true in my case:

2.6.24-16-generic
[ 121.966837] iwl3945: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 3945ABG/BG Network Connection driver for Linux, 1.2.25
network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu5

NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'iwl3945'.
NetworkManager: <info> wlan0: driver does not support SSID scans (scan_capa 0x00).

Not sure what's up here. Did the patch get removed again?