Neal Nelson wrote:
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?
No idea. I consider wi legacy hardware and personally consider it more
worthwhile to devote effort to supporting new devices such as Intel
cards. OTOH getting wi to support wpa supplicant operation is not a
huge amount of work so maybe someone will step up to do it.
Sam
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