Re: Regression in 2.6.27-git from commit 43ac2ca3840f64

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 10:37 -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:

> 	If you want me to understand what it's about, you may want to
> give me a bit more context.

Sorry. Basically, Larry is saying that due to a kernel change, iwlist
will print out things like
                    IE: Unknown: 0017465249545A21426F7820466F6E20574C414E2037313133
                    IE: Unknown: 010482848B96
                    IE: Unknown: 030106
                    IE: Unknown: 2A0106
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    IE: Unknown: 32080C1218243048606C
                    IE: WPA Version 1
                        Group Cipher : TKIP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : TKIP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
                    IE: Unknown: DD0A0800280101000200FF0F
                    IE: Unknown: DD180050F2020101800003A4000027A4000042435E0062322F00


where all the IE: Unknown lines are unexpected.

> 	Alternatively, just send me a patch for Wireless Tools, and
> I'll put it in the next release. Wireless Tools is still maintained
> and I still do releases, even if I don't put much cycles into it.

The problem is that we don't quite know what to do about them :)

johannes

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