On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 11:46 PM, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > 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. Can confirm that this is working or least was working somewhere around 2.6.24-rcX. with 4965. >> 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. The spec is very vague about implementation of this and I'm not sure anyone implements this even on other OSs. Tomas -- 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
