Hi
thanks for following my bug-report:
--On Donnerstag, 5. März 2009 01:43 +0000 lini...@freebsd.org wrote:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130820
From: "Paul B. Mahol" <one...@gmail.com>
To: lini...@freebsd.org
Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-b...@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/130820: [ndis] wpa_supplicant(8) returns 'no space on
device'
Yet another invalid bug report.
OP should use -Dndis and not -Dbsd
--
I did not reply to the comment, because of it's obvious stupidness:
If you go thru the code source for the wpasuplicant (what I did trying to
fix the bug), you can see that (at least that's true for FreeBSD 6.3) the
wpasupplicant *only* supports the BSD driver for wlan cards and no other.
That is ok, if the documentation clearly would mention that.
However, it is completely misleading (and shows the ignorance on that
subject by Paul) even pretending FreeBSD's wpasuplicant can be used with
the driver option.
In fact, FreeBSD's wpasupplicant implementation is at best half baked.
It turned out, that one has to consider at least two different ndis drivers:
1. The generic one, which works for unencrypted and WEP connections (using
the chipset's internal de/encryption facilities).
2. A specific ndis driver different from (1.) used to talk to the wlan
adapter while encryption and authentication is done by wpasupplicant.
Since (2.) is missing, wpasupplicant tries to use the build-in BSD driver,
which of course fails with the error message mentioned in my bug report.
In order to follow up this subject, I would recommend to change the
category of the bug into something like 'documentation bug' straighten up
the docs and close it.
I'm inclined to set up a wpa reference page with a detailed description of
this issue and perhaps include some additional patches (wpasupplicant
latest version for FreeBSD and others). However, currently I'm busy with
other projects; so it is likely that this will we postponed after the
summer term.
Further, it would be great (and maybe I ask one of my students) to get the
ndis driver working for FreeBSD. But again: This will not happen until the
winter term.
regards.
--eh.
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