On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 14:03 +0900, Masakazu Mokuno wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:13:38 -0500 > Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > One more question; does the driver work with wpa_supplicant for WPA, or > > does the firmware capture the EAPOL frames and handle the 4 way > > handshake internally? Ideally the firmware would have the ability to > > pass those frames up unmodified so the driver would at least have a > > _hope_ of 802.1x capability. Does the firmware handle Dynamic WEP at > > all? > > > > Basically, what happens when the AP you've just associated with starts > > sending you EAPOL traffic to start the 802.1x process? > > The PS3 wireless device does the association and 4way handshake in its > firmware/hypervisor. No interventions between them are allowed to the guest > OSes. > All frames which are sent/received from/to before the connection process > completed seems to be dropped by the hardware. Only the static WEP is > supported. That sort of sucks; but I guess there's not too much you can do about it. That probably means that using wpa_supplicant + WPA is completely out of the picture, which unfortunately makes the PS3 wireless unlike any other card, which would require special-casing the PS3 in userspace tools. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
