Re: WPA support

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, April 10, 2006 10:06 am, Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
> Am Montag, 10. April 2006 15:42 schrieb Erik Wikström:
>> On 2006-04-10 12:16, Thomas Schlesinger wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > as I've seen in the Wiki, there's support for ipw2200. But after
>> > goggleing a while, I got the impression, that WPA encryption is not
>> > possible yet. Is this correct? Is there support for WPA planned?
>>
>> Not yet, there is a patch by Adrian Nida for ath(4) and WAP support*.
>> Andrew Atrens said that he got it working for wi(4) too but I've not
>> heard anything about ipw(4).
>>
>> I seem to recal that there were plans for some major change in the
>> routing-code and until it's done no other major changes to the
>> networking would be committed, but I might be wrong.
>>
>> * http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/submit/2006-02/msg00036.html

I don't recall it being held back for anything...  Unless someone can
specifically identify a reason otherwise, we really should have it in;
it's useful, breaks nothing (that I know of), and has been sitting out
there way too long.