On 3/5/09, Erwin Hoffmann <f...@fehcom.de> wrote: > Hi > > thanks for following my bug-report: > > --On Donnerstag, 5. Maerz 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.
Patches are always welcome but note that mayor development is going in 8.0 CURRENT and there ndisulator + wpa_supplicant work for me. wpa_supplicant on 6.3 RELEASE does support ndis driver interface, I come up to that conclusion looking in cvs but I can not be sure because I never used wpa_supplicant with 6.3 RELEASE http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/?only_with_tag=RELENG_6_3_0_RELEASE -- Paul _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
