On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 22:46 +0200, Johannes Berg 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. > > > 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. wpa_supplicant _should_ support WPA-PSK with IBSS, you set proto=WPA-NONE to do this and I assume it just sends the PSK to the driver and never changes it. I haven't tested it a long time though. 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
