From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 16:52:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EEF516A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:52:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21FD843D6E for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:52:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [66.127.85.91] ([66.127.85.91]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j6QGpsms067360 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:51:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <42E66B73.8010607@errno.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:57:23 -0700 From: Sam Leffler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050327) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kirk Davis References: <04C71268DFDAA8499EC1A248A44B6A2B34BFFC@Exchange21.EDU.epsb.ca> In-Reply-To: <04C71268DFDAA8499EC1A248A44B6A2B34BFFC@Exchange21.EDU.epsb.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re boots X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:52:05 -0000 Kirk Davis wrote: > I am using the iwi driver with the wpa_supplicant for both WPA-PSK and > WAP/802.11x. It was a little tricky to get working (mostly due to the > firmware) but I now have to working great. I am in the process of creating > a document to post on the steps that I did to get it working. > > Did you recompile the wpa_supplicant in the base system? The wpa_supplicant > does not have TKIP support unless you add ENABLE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_EAPOL="YES" > into /etc/make.conf and recompile. You will also need to install the new > firmware for the driver that can be found here: > http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/ Huh? TKIP is a crypto module and is in the kernel (wlan_tkip). You've enabled EAPOL protocol support which is necessary for using 802.1x to communicate with a back-end server such as FreeRADIUS. I suspect the key thing is to get the necessary firwmare support in the card. Sam