Kevin Oberman wrote:
From: Neal Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:36:12 +0100
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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?
To the best of my knowledge there is no firmware for the Prism2.5 that
supports WPA and, without that, I don't think that the driver is going
to help.
Sure there is. I believe any rev 1.6.3 or later will do what's needed.
Mostly thhis is enable sending host-specific information elements in
the management frames and support sending host-encrypted data frames.
I would love to see if_wi updated to better work with the FreeBSD wlan
architecture, but I know that I don't have the time to do it and I would not
hold my breath as this chip is getting very long of tooth and probably
has not shipped in new hardware for at least two years. I still use it
because my laptop has one built-in. I'm due for a new laptop in about a
year and I imagine that I will never deal with anything using if_wi
after that.
Given the cost of cards these days it's easier to just buy a new one.
But maybe someone with a vested interest will do the work. I'd like to
see it happen and would help but don't have the time to do the work myself.
Sam
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