or does wpa_supplicant get it right? :-)

[Holger Schurig]

> Er, that should be "does the kernel hermes driver have support for *a
> new-enough version of* wireless extensions".  That may depend on whether
> you want to do WPA/WPA2, but it looks like you do want to, so I think it
> probably needs to support WE >=18 or so.

I think I'm as recent as I can get :-)

Kernel is 2.6.15
wireless-tools are wireless_tools.28.pre13.tar.gz

----------------------------------
# iwconfig --version
iwconfig  Wireless-Tools version 28
          Compatible with Wireless Extension v11 to v19.

Kernel    Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v19.

eth1      Recommend Wireless Extension v15 or later,
          Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v19.
----------------------------------

But I guess the WLAGS driver isn't up-to-par:

----------------------------------
# iwlist eth1 event
eth1      Wireless Events supported :

# 
----------------------------------

But it nevertheless generates a lot of events:

----------------------------------
$ grep "Wireless event" wpa-log.cisco1200
Mar 25 08:30:10.759388: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
Mar 25 08:30:10.888807: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b04 len=12
Mar 25 08:30:10.889202: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=15
Mar 25 08:30:12.384914: Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=78
Mar 25 08:30:12.388276: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
Mar 25 08:30:12.388540: Wireless event: new AP: 00:13:19:80:d6:f0
Mar 25 08:30:27.475534: Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=78
Mar 25 08:30:27.477600: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
Mar 25 08:30:27.477724: Wireless event: new AP: 00:13:19:80:da:30
Mar 25 08:30:54.163393: Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=78
Mar 25 08:30:54.164318: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
Mar 25 08:30:54.164416: Wireless event: new AP: 00:13:19:80:d6:f0

$ # That following is with the APs where I have extremely slow roaming:
$ grep "Wireless event" wpa-log.cisco4012
Mar 25 07:31:47.867581: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b06 len=8
Mar 25 07:31:47.980807: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b04 len=12
Mar 25 07:31:47.980963: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b1a len=15
Mar 25 07:31:48.306796: Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=78
Mar 25 07:31:48.307948: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
Mar 25 07:31:48.308049: Wireless event: new AP: 00:0b:85:5a:a6:4f
Mar 25 07:32:22.100482: Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=78
Mar 25 07:32:22.101411: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
Mar 25 07:32:22.101508: Wireless event: new AP: 00:0b:85:5a:a7:df
Mar 25 07:32:37.245456: Wireless event: cmd=0x8c02 len=78
Mar 25 07:32:37.246825: Wireless event: cmd=0x8b15 len=20
Mar 25 07:32:37.247022: Wireless event: new AP: 00:0b:85:5a:a6:4f
----------------------------------