wpa_supplicant does not work properly with some USB adapters on WinXP

[Jouni Malinen]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 11:59:17AM -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:

> I'm actually considering of doing this in the opposite order, i.e.,
> mapping adapter GUID to InstanceName, i.e., something like this:
> 
> SELECT Index FROM Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration
>     WHERE SettingID='{GUID}'
> 
> SELECT Name FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter WHERE Index=idx
> 
> This would need to be done only once and the matching of events could
> actually be left to WMI since the "SELECT * FROM
> MSNdis_StatusMediaConnect" type queries could actually be changed to
> "SELECT * FROM MSDNdis_StatusMediaConnect WHERE InstanceName='name'"
> (and that name would need to be the correct one; which could be Name
> from Win32_NetworkAdapter).

I did exactly this and it would be interesting to hear if today's
snapshot from 0.5 branch is working with various NDIS drivers.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA