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Re: [PATCH 5/5] libertas: fix WPA adhoc network creation

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On Sun, 2009-05-24 at 09:19 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 10:24 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 20:09 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > Oddly enough, the firmware's JOIN/START commands don't appear to have
> > > any facility for setting custom IEs, thus the started adhoc network
> > > doesn't advertise its WPA capability in the beacon.  Whee!
> > 
> > We don't even properly support WPA IBSS in mac80211...
> 
> Hmm, I support creating WPA-PSK adhoc networks in the NM UI (worked last
> summer when I added the code), can you give a 10 second summary of
> what's missing here?

Hm, well, Jouni says it doesn't play well with XP or Vista and we don't
have per-station group keys we'd need in theory.

johannes

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