Getting Atheros 5k to work with WPA in Ad-Hoc mode

[Patrick Nagelschmidt]

At 06.09.2009, you wrote:
>On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 04:37:43PM +0200, Patrick Nagelschmidt wrote:
>
> > Trying the same with wpa_supplicant gives a rather flaky connection
> > and even if windows is showing 'connection established' for several
> > seconds in the connection manager, I get no response to my packets
> > whatsoever. Is WPA and Ad-Hoc mode supposed to work with
> > wpa_supplicant yet? Any ideas what might cause the radio silence with
> > wpa_supplicant?
>
>WPA-None in IBSS is quite a hack and I would not really consider it to
>be a production quality design in the first place.. Anyway, yes, I've
>seen it work with wpa_supplicant, but I have not tested with ath5k or
>any other mac80211-based for that matter. Please also note that in case
>of WPA-None, wpa_supplicant is only setting a fixed key to the driver
>and everything else is done by the driver and as such, this question
>would be more likely for the scope of the driver, not wpa_supplicant.

Hm, I feared so. So what is the prefered solution to connect two 
wireless boxes without an additional access point in between? Is WEP 
the best I can do for this scenario or is there anything else I could 
try to have a more secure WPA-approach up and running?


Thanks & Regards,
  Patrick