wpa_supplicant for ad-hoc mode

[Dan Williams]

On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 13:15 -0700, Shawn Rutledge wrote:
> Next problem though: if one peer is not running wpa_supplicant, it can
> work.  If both peers are running wpa_supplicant, they will keep timing
> out.  Each timeout, the ESSID is de-configured:
> 
> wlan0     Disconnected  ESSID:off/any
>           Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
> 
> Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
> BSSID 00:00:00:00:00:00 blacklist count incremented to 12
> No keys have been configured - skip key clearing
> State: ASSOCIATING -> DISCONNECTED
> 
> I tried to fix it like this:
> 
> static void wpa_supplicant_timeout(void *eloop_ctx, void *timeout_ctx)
> {
> 	struct wpa_supplicant *wpa_s = eloop_ctx;
> 	const u8 *bssid = wpa_s->bssid;
> 	if (is_zero_ether_addr(bssid))
> 		bssid = wpa_s->pending_bssid;
> 	wpa_msg(wpa_s, MSG_INFO, "Authentication with " MACSTR " timed out.",
> 		MAC2STR(bssid));
> 	// In ad-hoc mode, this can be normal because we're waiting for a
> 	// peer to appear with the same SSID.
> 	if ( wpa_s->current_ssid->mode == IEEE80211_MODE_INFRA)
> 	{
> 		wpa_blacklist_add(wpa_s, bssid);
> 		wpa_sm_notify_disassoc(wpa_s->wpa);
> 		wpa_supplicant_disassociate(wpa_s, WLAN_REASON_DEAUTH_LEAVING);
> 	}
> 	wpa_s->reassociate = 1;
> 	wpa_supplicant_req_scan(wpa_s, 0, 0);
> }
> 
> which tentatively seems to be working.
> 
> Why doesn't anybody comment on this thread?  Is nobody interested
> using wpa_supplicant in ad-hoc mode?  Is there something wrong with
> the very idea of it?  I think it would be helpful for easy wireless
> configuration in every Linux distro, if one could unconditionally run
> wpa_supplicant on every system, and it fit every wireless use case
> (including ad-hoc).  Some typical distro-dependent scripting could be
> simplified.

I use it (well, 0.6.x) in ad-hoc mode all the time with the 'wext'
driver and ipw2200 hardware.  Seems like you shouldn't even be getting
to this point though.  The driver should be signalling association
completed way before the timeout triggers.  What driver was this again?

Dan

> On 2/20/09, Shawn Rutledge <shawn.t.rutledge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For what it's worth, ad-hoc mode is working when I use the latest
> >  wpa_supplicant from git (calls itself 0.7.0).  There were some fixes
> >  to the proprietary Socket P300 driver from Embwise... maybe that has
> >  something to do with it.  My custom GUI sends something like
> >
> >  SET_NETWORK 5 mode 1
> >
> >  and so mode=1 gets put into the conf file.  If wpa_gui is not yet
> >  doing the same thing, I still think it should.
> >
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