[PATCH 0/3] WLAN/SDIO power up/down synchronization

[Wolfgang Spraul]

Marek,

> Some weeks ago we (Holger, Mickey, Daniel, Jan and me) sat together  
> in Taipeh
> discussing this issue. We had 2 options: connman or exalt. Mickey  
> planned to
> look at both and give us feedback as soon as a decision was made  
> because the
> FSO team intended to integrate a network manager anyways.
>
> Hope the feedback is coming soon.  :-)

I think Mickey has chosen connman, but I didn't see reasons or  
comparison results with exalt.
Maybe Mickey has more...

Wolfgang

On Nov 23, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Marek Lindner wrote:

> On Sunday 23 November 2008 17:41:42 Andy Green wrote:
>> But actually considering that right now we have nothing workable (Hm,
>> Marek closed this bug that our Wifi UI is useless with WONTFIX) WPA- 
>> only
>> support that was solid would be fine and we should target it, since  
>> WEP
>> is about as good as no encryption nowadays.  Even so another post  
>> hints
>> they can in fact do WEP via wpa_supplicant
>
> WPA-PSK-only probably[tm] worked fine with the version that we  
> shipped with
> Om2008.{8|9} but it even had problems to connect to unencrypted  
> networks. WEP
> may be deprecated but is still heavily used.
> I looked into a later version which gladly accepted supplied  
> passwords but did
> not do anything with it. Also, theoretically it should support  
> everything that
> wpa_supplicant supports but it filtered networks internally.
>
> Some weeks ago we (Holger, Mickey, Daniel, Jan and me) sat together  
> in Taipeh
> discussing this issue. We had 2 options: connman or exalt. Mickey  
> planned to
> look at both and give us feedback as soon as a decision was made  
> because the
> FSO team intended to integrate a network manager anyways.
>
> Hope the feedback is coming soon.  :-)
>
>
> Marek
>
>