From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 15 17:36:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985B816A41F for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:36:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net) Received: from neal.nelson.name (neal.nelson.name [82.139.192.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8910B43D45 for ; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:36:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net) Received: from [10.0.0.8] (wtibook.home [10.0.0.8]) by neal.nelson.name with esmtp; Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:36:09 +0100 id 000D4D36.43A1A98A.00000510 In-Reply-To: <43A06BDA.5030602@errno.com> References: <70a5d94afc7213b73c0b44c881c49c76@kobudo.homeunix.net> <43A06BDA.5030602@errno.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v623) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Neal Nelson Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:36:12 +0100 To: Sam Leffler X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.623) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WPA Access Point X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:36:16 -0000 On 14 Dec 2005, at 20:00, Sam Leffler wrote: > Neal Nelson wrote: >> Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.0 to work as a wireless access point using >> WPA? >> I'm running a Prism 2.5 based wireless card and have been using it as >> an access point for years. It stills works OK but I installed the >> hostapd port in order to add WPA authentication. Unfortunately this >> doesn't seem to work as it complains when I run it as follows: >> bsd_configure_wpa: group key cipher=AES-CCM (3) >> ioctl[SIOCS80211]: Invalid argument >> I'm not sure whether hostapd is configured right as there seems to be >> no documentation for it. >> Can anyone shed some light on this or am I barking up the wrong tree >> as far as WPA is concerned? > > The above error is likely because you don't have wlan_ccmp > loaded/configured. However > > ifconfig wi0 list caps > > should indicate the driver lacks support for WPA1/WPA2. Guess it > would be good for hostpad to check that. > > Sam You are quite right on both counts. I built a new kernel with some extra wlan_ options and hostapd runs without complaint now. Of course it still doesn't work as my wi interface doesn't have the WPA capability. On the plus side I've finally managed to configure my system to talk to my Mac with WEP. OK it's not ideal but it's a start and I was unable to get them to talk when I tried it first some time ago. Do you have any idea whether WPA will be added to the wi driver or should I look for another interface card if I want to use this?