64 bit

[Richard Farina]

Inaky Perez-Gonzalez wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 11:56 -0400, Richard Farina wrote:
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>> Greetings!  I recently purchased an intel 5350 on ebay (not an 
>> engineering sample).  After following the directions from the mailing 
>> list several months ago (give or take), I got it to work.  The one 
>> problem, is that it only works on a 32 bit linux installation.  As this 
>> is listed in the known bugs, and the industry as a whole is moving 
>> towards 64 bit, I am presuming that a fix is planned.  Any idea when 
>> this will happen.  It's only the binary supplicant that seems to prevent 
>> this from working in 64 bit, can't someone just compile a 64 bit version 
>> so this stuff is usable?  Anyway I'm here for testing if needed.
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> We keep grinding the wheels here to get out the open source supplicant
> support. It is taking way longer than any of us expected, but it is
> coming along. This should allow compilation to any arch (although we use
> primary 32 bits systems here).
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First of all, thanks for your quick response Inaky, it is appreciated.  
While the prospect of an open source supplicant is obviously preferred, 
is there any way to take the old binary supplicant and compile it for 64 
bit? Or make the 64 bit wimax network service able to use the 32 bit 
binary blob of a supplicant?  I love the idea of an open source 
supplicant, but at the moment I'd take free as in beer while waiting for 
my free as in freedom.

Thanks,
Rick
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