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New xwlan beta - please test and give feedback

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Doug Bissett:
Confirmed, that PMPRINTF is no longer required.

It seems that the supplicant works better than the older version (quick test), and the rest works just as badly as ever. At least it can be made to communicate, without too much trouble. FWIW, the main problem seems to be that the IP address is not obtained reliably. Sometimes it gets one immediately, at other times, I need to turn off/on the radio, a couple of times, before it even attempts to get an IP address. The same is true for getting an IP address for the wired NIC.

Thanks for your efforts.

Dave Yeo:
Seems to work fine on my T42. As Doug said, it seems faster but I never benchmarked.

Andi B.:
I've also the impression that the wpa_supplicant is much faster most of the times. BUT not always. Sometimes it needs longer to establish the connection.

DHCP - I didn't see the problem Dough describes here. But I didn't test very much with DHCP since a while. In fact while building and testing new xwlan/wpa_supplicant I switched DHCP off. One thing that comes to mind - I think I've created a ticket long ago about that I think there is a logic error in the original xwlan code. IIRC xwlan fires up dhclient at the same time as wpa_supplicant (before the supplicant has negotiated the connection). If for some currently unknown reason the supplicant takes longer maybe the dhclient has increased it's pause period that much that Dough thinks it never asks and so gets a response. But this is all guessing. Someone has to dig into this. Starting point would be setting wpa_supplicant debug visible with Debuglevel Info and DHCP client Log NOT activated (to see the dhclient window, it is minimized by default, maximize it and see what the dhclient sciprt does).

Holger Schuett:
Hi Andi,
I can confirm that the new version works without PMPRINTF with xwlan and from command line. Concerning the speed I find it hard to tell if it works faster or not as I mainly use the command line to start the wpa_supplicant and establish a connection. This way it works faster than using xwlan in any case.

Thank you once again for your efforts.

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