Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 20:59:32 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, James Snow <snow+freebsd-current@teardrop.org> Subject: Re: Getting WPA to work on ath(4) Message-ID: <20050624185932.GB70929@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <0506241058502.41439@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> References: <20050621205048.GA61951@freebie.xs4all.nl> <050622074135F.25017@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> <20050623202416.GA64730@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050623204325.GA72574@teardrop.org> <20050623211620.GA65274@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050623213139.GA73882@teardrop.org> <20050623214717.GA65438@freebie.xs4all.nl> <0506241058502.41439@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw>
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On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 12:10:51PM +0800, Tai-hwa Liang wrote.. > On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 05:31:39PM -0400, James Snow wrote.. > >>On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:16:20PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >>> > >>>How do you disable WME? [ I feel stranded in a maze of acronyms, all > >>>different :-) ] > >> > >>ifconfig <if> -wme > >> > >>I think it's in the ifconfig man page, but I reserve the right to be > >>wrong. If it's not, it clearly should be. > > > >It is indeed in the ifconfig man page. > > > >>My understanding is that we do something wrong with WME right now, and > >>this in turn makes APs unhappy with us. > > > >Smells like WME should default to 'off'? > > It is. See src/sys/net80211/ieee80211.c:1.16. Hm, that would make James' suggestion to ifconfig -wme a no-op. > AFAIK, the problem is that there are some interoperability problems > when you have both WME + WPA enabled. Disable one of them should be a > possible workaround. I believe that Sam has some fixes in his queue; > however, those fixes were not yet ready for the forthcoming 6-RELEASE. OK. > >>>I noticed today that wpa_supplicant renegotiated multiple times even with > >>>SSID broadcasting enabled. So it was most definitely not the full > >>>fix to enable broadcasting. > > That's what I observed around here: sometimes it takes wpa_supplicant > looping multiple times before negotiated to the AP(w/ or w/o hidden SSID). And sometimes it appears not to get things sorted at all (at least not before I get impatient ;), kill wpa_supplicant and remove/re-insert my ath(4) card. > Apart from multiple regotiation sometimes, scan_ssid=1 works for me. > Have you tried to set the IP manually(no dhclient) after ath0 was > associated with the AP? Yes, I tried a couple of times. It did not make a whole lot of difference, in the sense I did not think it worked better with a manual set IP address. Interesting exercise, this :) -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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