> > I have no idea. Usually, you don't even do open auth for IBSS, there's > > just no point. Unless you get into IBSS with encryption, but we don't > > really support that yet, and we probably never will actually support > > that without the userspace MLME in wpa supplicant. > > IBSS + WEP works at least for ipw2200 and other non-mac80211 cards; I > can check it out with mac80211 if you like. Yeah, no, +WEP should work. I haven't specifically tested it but I see no reason for it not to work. > Any particular reason IBSS would require a userspace MLME? There > shouldn't be any rekeying of any kind with adhoc, since there's no > central station to coordinate the rekying. AFAIK with IBSS you just use > the given PSK at creation time, and never change it. That shouldn't be > too hard to handle, right? Well, I was really thinking of RSN/WPA, and last I checked wpa_supplicant didn't even support that with IBSS, and I think it requires userspace MLME because you have to do the auth/assoc sequence with each peer etc. johannes
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