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wpa_supplicant daemon: wext driver, how to select properly

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#1 Sun, 2014-09-21 10:38
euri
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I decided to try out Alpine Linux on my old laptop and it was working great.
Only for my wireless card I had to copy the ipw2200-firmware from my arch linux partition (maybe I should create a package).
Besides I had to add '-Dwext' to the command args in /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant. Is there a better way selecting the wext driver?

Modifying the file /etc/network/interfaces hasn't worked.

auto wifi0
iface wifi0 inet dhcp
	wpa-driver wext
	wpa-conf /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
	#wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf