From owner-freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Wed Nov 30 15:36:10 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC89C5CB06 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-oi0-x22a.google.com (mail-oi0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4003:c06::22a]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 62A5E11C6 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:36:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by mail-oi0-x22a.google.com with SMTP id v84so232826469oie.3 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:36:10 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=TOpXZ/f+px/94OOirMgoQykrLhEyHqXB7M0H5xMoCEI=; b=nQF/KPmyN946LMfb+J06WV8Fl4vh04JiwvyUS2O5sAAUm/Pz9Qe7vP/0c0MLMl3sNs VBD2kz+oWnR+Q3SQsSifNDL4InvTx/2YswZE4JKS6peX0hshymvAB7HNarzNeurU/2ku sBSOY5SDMmaCF8WYpKtqekD3ryv/wLtc5GaFS4CrrnHEXpcQe/3G3URKvWgW7nC8IgyQ lSWtQnBFpJUeZdIlWmba/OLh+TX7zY5DSVONVZnPYebL9IIFznZZtTvLiV03bGC0+jBe BDcb7Dn4tMFKzUWzwpJhX1A7Kvw7EjLd4TutOhdNGaJPx3ia9bcwY0EdcSBNxf7rpfeU OY6w== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=TOpXZ/f+px/94OOirMgoQykrLhEyHqXB7M0H5xMoCEI=; b=BYDIBHgfAUM55TdUxYesPWLQ9Ey1K/JHcWsi4lZzSmGjKaSQJlpwlB/5PyywQA35Wr SV6dsH8WOYu1HClELgQdQ68JV2pTNlRXEM9EbaPf+Ucqssl5dAltItV4Iz1MS6oqaPll HWkjA2UwRaswVMYKAGxpZZWaLqEdPAdN7Y2RqZdz53y4Urrn8OtyNE4WJtHs9ewMVj3Z o00libnjpprEmxITFVsWNG4znO6a9KhMIt6OdLS8WLlAwBQ5SUBL779xpq45M8GA5bPj SUydG3fR1RQtcGHrZZZ42+gQnrochvj+mGVlCMuCH3I+VBqHAIMoKsVveL58XVbQ+imy W8AQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AKaTC03VZxkf6kQvIzgDL4yvhFCHWreHevLkNJG40FPvfBRQAJileeiGYB45U/5kURwgXEOS/biKs2mJDa0ZSg== X-Received: by 10.36.58.85 with SMTP id m82mr28762876itm.29.1480520169667; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:36:09 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.36.150.129 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:36:09 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <274363496.3274563.1480494823102@mail.yahoo.com> References: <274363496.3274563.1480494823102.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <274363496.3274563.1480494823102@mail.yahoo.com> From: Adrian Chadd Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:36:09 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: ifconfig(8) and WPA functionality To: Fehmi Noyan ISI Cc: Freebsd Wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 15:36:10 -0000 hiya, nope - we're sticking with wpa_supplicant driving the wpa / 802.1x state machine for now. -a On 30 November 2016 at 00:33, Fehmi Noyan ISI via freebsd-wireless wrote: > hiya, > > I have been studying OpenBSD's implementation of ifconfig utility and realized that many of the WPA functionality is provided by the OpenBSD's ifconfig utility. > > Functionality is implemented as ioctl calls (SIOCS80211WPAPARMS / SIOGS80211WPAPARMS) > > and, as far as I have been told, is enough to provide basic wifi connectivity and likes. > > Has something similar (embedding WPA functionality into ifconfig(8)) been considered for FreeBSD before? This, of course, is a design matter than being a coding issue. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"