Driver development

divijvaidya13 · 09-14-2010, 01:16 AM

Hey

I want to change the authentication protocol used in linux kernel.
Should I change the driver? wpa_supplicant??

What piece of code makes a driver device specific?

Please help.

Thanks.

EricTRA · 09-14-2010, 01:37 AM

Hello,

Please don't post your question in more than one forum. That will only confuse you and us. Keeping your question/problem and the answers in one place is a lot easier to follow. Stick with this thread. I reported the other one as double-post.

Kind regards,

Eric

estabroo · 09-14-2010, 07:31 AM

Are you sure you looking at a kernel thing? From what you wrote it sounds more like you should be looking at pam and other userspace programs rather than the kernel.

divijvaidya13 · 09-15-2010, 03:55 AM

@EricTRA Sorry sir. Actually I was unsure as to what topic should this be posted so posted in both. I assure you it won't happen in future.

@estabroo: I sincerely don't know what I should be doing!! That is why I wanted help from this forum. My objective is to change an authentication protocol used in wpa_supplicant. Please tell me how to do it.

estabroo · 09-15-2010, 07:19 AM

Change it in what way? The biggest problem isn't on the linux side but on the device side it's going to expect wpa or wpa2 and most likely won't be adaptable to some new previously unknown protocol.