Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:24:44 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Neal Nelson <nealie@kobudo.homeunix.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WPA Access Point Message-ID: <43A1C2FC.6020304@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <be09733eff64576cfcc52d9860721a12@kobudo.homeunix.net> References: <70a5d94afc7213b73c0b44c881c49c76@kobudo.homeunix.net> <43A06BDA.5030602@errno.com> <be09733eff64576cfcc52d9860721a12@kobudo.homeunix.net>
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Neal Nelson wrote: > 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? > > No idea. I consider wi legacy hardware and personally consider it more worthwhile to devote effort to supporting new devices such as Intel cards. OTOH getting wi to support wpa supplicant operation is not a huge amount of work so maybe someone will step up to do it. Sam
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