[B.A.T.M.A.N.] wpa-none through openwrt config

[B.A.T.M.A.N.] wpa-none through openwrt config

[Ray Gibson]

Hello,

I'm trying to get wpa-none happy on my bullet m5's running batman-adv 
(aa-rc1 with batman-adv 2012.3.0).  I can make it work by running 
wpa_supplicant manually with the correct options but am interested in 
having it work through the uci config files.  Is this possible?  The 
wpa_supplicant.sh script seems to want to force wpa-psk with any options 
that force wpa_supplicant, which generate a relatively useless 
supplicant config file for ibss. This also makes wlan0 get the default 
1500 MTU.

Here's my "semi-working" wpa_supplicant.conf file, after I increase the 
MTU then batman talks properly and sees the other node.  semi-working 
because even though batctl o sees the other node it can't ping it unless 
the psk is commented out.. :-\

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=2
fast_reauth=1
#IBSS/ad-hoc mode with WPA2/AES encryption
network={
     ssid="batmesh"
     bssid=20:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee
     mode=1
     scan_ssid=1
     frequency=5765
     fixed_freq=1
     mcast_rate=18
     htmode=HT20
     proto=WPA
     key_mgmt=WPA-NONE
     pairwise=NONE
     group=CCMP
     psk="xxxxxxxx"
}

Thanks for any ideas.

-- 
Ray Gibson
Future Concepts IS Inc.
909-593-6705 x2096




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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] wpa-none through openwrt config

[Simon Wunderlich]

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Hello Ray,

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 02:29:36PM -0800, Ray Gibson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to get wpa-none happy on my bullet m5's running
> batman-adv (aa-rc1 with batman-adv 2012.3.0).  I can make it work by
> running wpa_supplicant manually with the correct options but am
> interested in having it work through the uci config files.  Is this
> possible?  The wpa_supplicant.sh script seems to want to force
> wpa-psk with any options that force wpa_supplicant, which generate a
> relatively useless supplicant config file for ibss. This also makes
> wlan0 get the default 1500 MTU.
> 
> Here's my "semi-working" wpa_supplicant.conf file, after I increase
> the MTU then batman talks properly and sees the other node.
> semi-working because even though batctl o sees the other node it
> can't ping it unless the psk is commented out.. :-\
> 
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=0
> eapol_version=1
> ap_scan=2
> fast_reauth=1
> #IBSS/ad-hoc mode with WPA2/AES encryption
> network={
>     ssid="batmesh"
>     bssid=20:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee
>     mode=1
>     scan_ssid=1
>     frequency=5765
>     fixed_freq=1
>     mcast_rate=18
>     htmode=HT20
>     proto=WPA
>     key_mgmt=WPA-NONE
>     pairwise=NONE
>     group=CCMP
>     psk="xxxxxxxx"
> }

Have you made sure that WPA-NONE works without batman-adv? It appears
that openwrt currently doesn't support WPA-NONE at all driver-wise, at
least this bug report suggests it (don't know if its a problem in wpa_supplicant,
madwifi, or any other driver):

https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/9190

You can try running WPA-NONE, set some IPs and let the nodes ping each other.
If this works, batman-adv should[tm] work too.

Cheers,
	Simon

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Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] wpa-none through openwrt config

[Ray Gibson]

On 1/6/2013 10:42 PM, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
> Have you made sure that WPA-NONE works without batman-adv? It appears 
> that openwrt currently doesn't support WPA-NONE at all driver-wise, at 
> least this bug report suggests it (don't know if its a problem in 
> wpa_supplicant, madwifi, or any other driver): 
> https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/9190 You can try running WPA-NONE, set 
> some IPs and let the nodes ping each other. If this works, batman-adv 
> should[tm] work too. Cheers, Simon 

Thank you Simon, I will do some experimenting and report back any results.

-- 
Ray Gibson
Future Concepts IS Inc.
909-593-6705 x2096




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