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network-manager package

  1. Bug #101857
  2. Comment #20

Comment 20 for bug 101857

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 101857] Re: WPA doesn't work with NetworkManager using the bcm43xx driver (works with wpa_supplicant)

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 02:59:07PM -0000, Wojtek Kaniewski wrote:
> 09_fix_bigendian_words.patch in network-manager_0.6.4 is broken. It adds
> endianness checks to configure.in and configure, but doesn't add
> WORDS_BIGENDIAN define to config.h.in, so the code is still compiled the
> same way for little- and big-endian systems. Upstream version 0.6.5
> already contains all the fixes, so Gutsy shoudn't be affected by this
> bug, only Feisty. As stated above, the workaround is to enter
> hexadecimal passphrase generated by wpa_passphrase.
>
> Anyway, as I'm new to Ubuntu, I don't really know how to prepare a
> proper fix nor how to rebuild a patched package to test it. I've
> attached the fixed patch that should resolve all problems. It's pretty
> straightforward, but if you want me to test it first, please let me know
> how to rebuild a package or where to find some howto.
>
> ** Attachment added: "09_fix_bigendian_words.patch"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/8787827/09_fix_bigendian_words.patch
>

If you want to help preparing an ubuntu update based on this patch,
feel free to stop by in #ubuntu-mozillateam on irc.freenode.net and
ping me (nick: asac).

Thanks,

 - Alexander