[PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation

[PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation

[Linus Lüssing]

For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the more
modern, netlink based driver instead of wext.

Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
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Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the configuration
files and information provided in
Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supplicant.conf}

Changing -Dwext to -Dnl80211 helped and made the WPA-PSK connection with
mac80211_hwsim interfaces work for me.
---
 Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
index 24ac91d..3566a72 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
+++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ modprobe mac80211_hwsim
 hostapd hostapd.conf
 
 # Run wpa_supplicant (station) for wlan1
-wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf
+wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf
 
 
 More test cases are available in hostap.git:
-- 
2.1.4

Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 00:39 +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the
> more modern, netlink based driver instead of wext.

Makes sense, applied.

> Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the
> configuration
> files and information provided in
> Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supp
> licant.conf}
> 
This less so, we even have a few test cases we run regularly, but I
don't know. Maybe there's something special in those configuration
files that we don't test for otherwise.

johannes

Re: [PATCH] mac80211_hwsim: suggest nl80211 instead of wext driver in documentation

[Linus Lüssing]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 00:39 +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> > For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the
> > more modern, netlink based driver instead of wext.
> 
> Makes sense, applied.
> 
> > Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the
> > configuration
> > files and information provided in
> > Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supp
> > licant.conf}
> > 
> This less so, we even have a few test cases we run regularly, but I
> don't know. Maybe there's something special in those configuration
> files that we don't test for otherwise.

I investigated a little further and the problem is probably that
I'm running a minimal Linux kernel which was compiled without
CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT :-).

Anyways, thanks for applying the patch!

Regards, Linus