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From: Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Wireless driver / firmware ebuilds & wireless-tools
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 08:25:35
Message-Id: d8868389d769bcc1ab838c74eb533b78@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Wireless driver / firmware ebuilds & wireless-tools by Roy Marples
1 On May 21, 2005, at 8:47 am, Roy Marples wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 05:06 +0100, Stroller wrote:
4 >> - as I understand it: wireless-tools to actually configure the SSID,
5 >> WEP key
6 >
7 > wpa_supplicant can do this as well which makes wireless-tools optional
8
9 Ah, expletive! Please excuse my last email, then, which went from my
10 outbox just a few seconds ago.
11
12 What's the difference between wpa_supplicant & wireless-tools, then?
13 Could ipw2200 (theoretically, as a virtual, or at some point in the
14 future) depend upon wpa_supplicant instead?
15
16 Stroller.
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