On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 08:02:48 AM Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > Hi > > I'm picking up the task to integrate WPA support into > debian-installer. My goal is to have this finished by the end of > Debconf. Is anyone of you also going to attend Debconf?
Nope. > > > > nl80211 is the way forward. It would require libnl to be included in D-I. > > AFAICS with my iwlwifi card both nl80211 and wext work. Is there any > practical advantage of nl80211. If possible I would like to avoid > having to include another library into d-i. WEXT is deprecated upstream, nl80211 is in active development and all new wifi drivers will use it. Looking into my crystal ball I see that eventually the WEXT compat layer will decay into something that nobody wants to keep maintaining. If D-I integration of wpasupplicant were to go ahead without including support for nl80211 it would be a waste of time imo. > > > > > diff -urN wpasupplicant-0.6.10.orig/debian/control > > > > wpasupplicant-0.6.10/debian/control [...] > > > > +Architecture: linux-any > > > > > > > > wpasupplicant is needed, and compatible with-, kFreeBSD as well, at > > > > this moment kFreeBSD doesn't support wlan for unrelated reasons > > > > (ifconfig not being able to configure wlan interfaces, besides the > > > > open firmware issues, while firmwares are required for most > > > > chipsets). So ignoring hurd, it should be "any" or at least > > > > "linux-any kfreebsd-any". > > > > > > Wireless config is disabled in d-i for kfreebsd, so there's no reason > > > to build wpasupplicant-udeb for those arches. However, if you're > > > comfortable that a wpasupplicant-udeb will build correctly for those > > > arches, it'd save changes down the line if/when kfreebsd gets d-i > > > wireless support. > > > > It'd probably be better to prepare early here and build > > wpasupplicant-udeb for whatever it can build on. > > I don't care that much as it mainly concerns your package, but as > kfreebsd does not currently have wireless support in d-i, the package > won't be used for now. I don't know how much work it would be to > enable wireless for kfreebsd in d-i, but that's a another task. > > I have another question: > To connect to the debconf network I needed to additional kernel > modules for the encryption algorithms: aes_generic.ko and > aes-x86_64.ko. Are these the only crpyto modules required for WPA or > are there configurations where other algorithms might be needed. Of > course aes-x86_64 has to be replaced by the appropriate module on > other architectures. It's possible, I don't really know. > > > > > Has there been any solution for the netcfg integration already, see > > > > <201011041811.11753....@otaku42.de> [1], referring to the originally > > > > proposed introduction of embedded source copies of wpasuppliant's > > > > wpa_ctrl.[hc] into netcfg. Please also keep in mind that crda/ > > > > wireless-regdb is required for accessing channels 11-13/14 on modern > > > > drivers. > > > > > > I've applied the existing WPA netcfg support patches developed by Glenn > > > Saberton, and they do appear to include a (stripped down) wpa_ctrl.c. > > > > That stripped down crap probably was extracted from a sideline project > > (python-wpactrl) I was working on, and is not good long term solution. > > > > wpa_ctrl.{c,h} from current wpasupplicant source tree have lots more > > dependency on other stuff. Extracting and patching wpa_ctrl.{c,h} to be > > standalone is something which should be avoided - I just do not know how > > currently. > > > > Asked upstream wpa_supplicant if wpa_ctrl could be provided in a way > > where it could be a shared library but received no response. > > Is there any progress on this? Nope. > > > > I > > > have no idea what the story is with crda/wireless-regdb, as I said > > > before, I don't know anything about WPA. If you'd like to help out, > > > though, your knowledge would be greatly valued. > > > > I wouldn't mind helping out, don't know how though, Have little idea > > about D-I environment and took long enough to just reply to this request > > to feel a little embarrassed. > > > > Also haven't seen the proposed change to netcfg anytime in recent past to > > comment further. Can that be reviewed? > > It's in branch people/womble/wpa of > git://git.debian.org/git/d-i/netcfg. > > Gaudenz Thanks for the link. Kel. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org