AW: IBSS and 802.11i (RSN) with mac80211

[Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>]

Johannes,
thanks for the almost instant reply. I'll give this a try!

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Regards 
Joerg 




----- Johannes Berg wrote ----
> 
> 1) Check that iw reports that you can do it (I just now  committed code
>    to iw to report it since you asked, so use git  version, which will
>    become 0.9.23 at some point in the  future)
> 
> 2) get git version of wpa_supplicant, compile with  CONFIG_IBSS_RSN and
>    use a config file like  this:
> 
> ap_scan=2
> network={
>     ssid="your  SSID"
>     mode=1
>      frequency=2412
>     proto=RSN
>      key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>     psk="your secret key!!  :-)"
> }
> 
> 
> If you find a good place, maybe you can add it to the  wiki?
> 
> Note that wpa_supplicant currently doesn't reject the config if  the
> driver doesn't support it, but it won't work.
> 
> If you want to make  your driver support it, the easiest way is to
> implement something like I did  for iwlwifi:
> 
> commit 274102a8a2a4a0b67c401b75a96694db76cfc701
> Author:  Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
> Date:    Tue Jan 18 04:44:03 2011 -0800
> 
>     iwlwifi: support RSN  IBSS
> 
> 
> johannes