I am in the process of setting up a AP using Ubuntu 9.10, a Broadcom BCM4318 and hostapd. I've run into an issue getting OS X clients to associate with the access point. Once I had configured hostapd.conf correctly, Windows and Linux clients were able to associate with the AP and use it as a router. OS X clients, however, would not associate and I'd see messages in the log that said "Deassociated due to inactivity." After wrestling with that for a few days, I found a reference to someone setting the EAP version to 1 to allow his iBook to connect. Sure enough, setting eapol_version=1 in hostapd.conf resolved the issue and allowed all OS X clients to connect (including a Leopard laptop, a Snow Leopard iMac and an iPhone 3G.) However, this brings up several questions: Is EAP version 1 secure? In light of this issue, why is version 2 default? Is there any way to negotiate the version level? Which version do off-the-shelf consumer routers use? Based on the comments in hostapd.conf, EAP only seems to be used for 802.1X authentication. I'm using WPA/WPA2 (wpa=3) Personal authentication, so why does the EAP version matter? Why is an OS as recent as Snow Leopard (10.6) using a protocol version that the hostapd.conf comments imply is outdated? Thanks, Eric Volker -- 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
